ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,099, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Seurat Technologies Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Part manipulation using printed manipulation points" was invented by James A. DeMuth (Woburn, Mass.), Erik Toomre (Los Altos, Calif.), Francis L. Leard (Sudbury, Mass.), Kourosh Kamshad (Hudson, N.H.), Heiner Fees (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Eugene Berdichevsky (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manipulator device such as a robot arm that is capable of increasing manufacturing throughput for additively manufactured parts, and allows for the manipulation of parts that would be difficult or impossible for a human to move is des...