ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,779, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to PERIDOT PRINT LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Three-dimensional additional object generation" was invented by Sergio Puigardeu Aramendia (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Michel Georges Encrenaz (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Marc Garcia Grau (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Sergi Culubret I Cortada (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, there is provided a method of automatically creating sacrificial parts to be printed in the three-dimensional printer. The method comprises obtaining object model data relating to a three-dimensional object to be printe...