US Patent Issued to STRATASYS on Nov. 18 for "Method and system for classifying additive manufactured objects" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,531, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to STRATASYS INC. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Method and system for classifying additive manufactured objects" was invented by Michael Bosveld (Bloomington, Minn.), Charles Alan Smithson (Minnetonka, Minn.), Thomas Peter Paul (Chanhassen, Minn.) and Jason Robert Nixon (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of additive manufacturing comprises operating an additive manufacturing system for fabricating a multiplicity of objects, while acquiring a set of images during fabrication of each of the objects. For each object, a respective set of images is analyzed to identify fabrication irregularit...