ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,999, issued on April 22, was assigned to Shanghai Fusion Tech Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"3D printing slicing method, apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Jinjing Zhang (Shanghai), Jianzhe Li (Shanghai) and Hua Feng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "3D printing slicing methods, apparatuses, devices, and storage mediums are disclosed. In an embodiment, a 3D printing slicing method includes the following steps: (1) acquiring a 3D model and a target texture picture; (2) obtaining a first model and obtaining a first picture; (3) establishing a mapping set between the first model and the first picture; (4) slicing a targ...