US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 8 for "AI-powered autonomous 3D printer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,888, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"AI-powered autonomous 3D printer" was invented by Grace Xiang Gu (Berkeley, Calif.), Zhizhou Zhang (Berkeley, Calif.) and Zeqing Jin (Albany, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of additive manufacturing to perform three-dimensional printing, capturing images of printed material, using a convolutional neural network to determine a state of the printing, and autonomously adjusting the three-dimensional printing as needed based upon the state of the printing. A system to perform autonomous additive manufacturing has a three-...