US Patent Issued to Shaper Tools on July 22 for "Systems, methods and apparatus for sharing tool fabrication and design data" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,840, issued on July 22, was assigned to Shaper Tools Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems, methods and apparatus for sharing tool fabrication and design data" was invented by Alec Rothmyer Rivers (Oakland, Calif.), Joseph J. Hebenstreit (San Francisco), Ilan Ellison Moyer (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Sam Cuttriss (Oakland, Calif.), Matthew Wyatt Martin (Fairfax, Calif.) and Jeremy Evan Blum (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position sensing tool for enabling topographical measurements of a working surface is provided. The tool includes sensors for mapping the tool environment and for positioning of the tool within the environment. Th...