US Patent Issued to Siemens Industry Software on Jan. 13 for "Heat-aware toolpath reordering for 3D printing of physical parts" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,795, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Heat-aware toolpath reordering for 3D printing of physical parts" was invented by Katharina Eissing (Papenburg, Germany), Omar Fergani (Berlin), Frank Heinrichsdorff (Teltow, Germany), Darya Kastsian (Falkensee, Germany) and Daniel Reznik (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system may include an access engine and a toolpath reordering engine. The access engine may be configured to access an original layer toolpath for slice of a 3D CAD object as well as a heat criticality measure for the original layer toolpath. The heat criticality...