ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,917, issued on April 29, was assigned to Stratasys Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).
"Method and system for controlling a cooling system in three-dimensional printing" was invented by Barak Glassman (Nes Ziona, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of additive manufacturing, comprises: dispensing from an array of nozzles an amount of building material formulation to form a layer in a configured pattern corresponding to a shape of a slice of an object, and hardening the layer. Based on the amount and a geometrical characteristic of the slice, a thermal mass of the layer is calculated. A cooling system is controlled in a closed loop cont...