US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Feb. 18 for "Model based supporting spokes activation to aid 3D printing" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,949, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Model based supporting spokes activation to aid 3D printing" was invented by Sijo Varghese (Kerala, India) and Jeffrey H. Hunt (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing bed for a three-dimensional (3D) printer includes an upper surface configured to have a plurality of droplets land thereon to form a first layer of a 3D object. The printing bed also includes a support structure. In response to the 3D object having an overhang with an angle that exceeds a predetermined threshold, the support structure is configured to actuate from a fi...