US Patent Issued to Stratasys on Feb. 3 for "Controlling toolpath for additive manufacturing apparatus to create a load- bearing structure" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,674, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Stratasys Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Controlling toolpath for additive manufacturing apparatus to create a load- bearing structure" was invented by Wilhelmus Frederikus Zoetelief (Helmond, Netherlands), Lucien Douven (Sittard, Netherlands), Bart-Jan Van Der Gaag (Ouddorp, Netherlands) and Merijn De Leur (Amstelveen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects are described for use in additive manufacturing. A desired manufacturing path may be specified for a 3D model of an object to manufacture via additive manufacturing. The object may be a load-bearing structure. The desired manufacturin...