ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,799, issued on July 8, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alo, Calif.).

"Generation of an object model for three dimensional printers" was invented by Serigo Gonzalez Martin (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Cristina Gonzalez Delgado (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Jordi Roca Vila (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Object model data is obtained, representing one or more objects to be generated by an additive manufacturing system. An object model is generated, representing an arrangement of the one or more objects within a build volume, by determining a solution to a packing optimization function. A laye...