ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,981, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Flexibility of features of an object to be additively manufactured" was invented by Ismael Fernandez Aymerich (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Roger Fadurdo Orellana (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Arnau Codina Saborit (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Cristina Dominguez Manchado (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a method includes identifying, by processing circuitry, a feature of less than a threshold size of an object to be generated in additive manufacturing. In some examples the method further includes determi...