ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,137, issued on May 20, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Three-dimensional shaped article manufacturing method and data processing device" was invented by Satoshi Yamazaki (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional shaped article manufacturing method by using a flow rate adjustment mechanism to control a discharge start and a discharge stop of a shaping material discharged from a discharge unit and stacking the shaping material includes generating intermediate data including a partial route that is a route along which the discharge unit moves while continuously discharging the shaping material, and a ...