US Patent Issued to Peridot Print on Oct. 7 for "Generating conformal structures for 3D object models" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,519, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alo, Canada).

"Generating conformal structures for 3D object models" was invented by Nicholas Saunders (Vancouver, Wash.), David Woodlock (Vancouver, Wash.) and James McCutcheon (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example implementation, a method of generating a conformal structure, includes generating a bottom surface and a top surface of a conformal structure, positioning seed points on a seed surface, where the seed surface comprises the bottom surface or the top surface, and expanding the seed points as spherical cells whose cell boundaries form wall...