ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,580, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Thermal image determination" was invented by Lei Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Maria Fabiola Leyva Mendivil (Guadalajara, Mexico) and Jun Zeng (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of methods for thermal image determination are described. In some examples, a method may include determining, using a first machine learning model, a first thermal image of a first layer of additive manufacturing. In some examples, the method may include determining, using a second machine learning model, a second thermal image of a second layer based on a simula...