ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,694, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SHENZHEN CBD TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Method and device for placing 3D model utilizing a monotone queue algorithm" was invented by Yilong Li (Guangdong, China) and Yu Yi (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to the technical field of 3D printing, and more particularly to a method and a device for placing a 3D model, a computer-readable storage medium, and a 3D printer. The method includes: performing a dimension reduction processing to a first 3D model and a second 3D model, respectively, to obtain a first plane graphics corresponding t...