ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,162, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Stratasys Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).
"Simplified tuning of 3D printers" was invented by Vittorio Lorenzo Jaker (Chanhassen, Minn.), Joel Fortgang (Minneapolis) and Timothy James Riley (Savage, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D printer includes a holding area holding material to be used to produce a part and at least one component for producing the part through layer-wise additive manufacturing. A data storage device in the 3D printer stores instructions for generating build parameter values, the instructions including empirically derived data, relationships, and/or equations. A process...