US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Dec. 2 for "3D print portal to assist in revising, reviewing, and approving 3D printable files" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,579, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ricoh Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"3D print portal to assist in revising, reviewing, and approving 3D printable files" was invented by Ryan Hess (Boulder, Colo.), Fred Herold (Boulder, Colo.), Steven A. Nelson (Boulder, Colo.), Gary Turner (Boulder, Colo.), Patrick Gannon (Boulder, Colo.), Jeanette Wall (Boulder, Colo.) and John Gramlich (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D portal facilitates revision, review, and approval of 3D printable files prior to printing. A collection of one or more 3D printable files of an object to be printed is revised and reviewed until a version of the collectio...