ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,310, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Techniques for binarizing images to determine jetting quality in additive manufacturing" was invented by Christoforos Somarakis (Gilroy, Calif.), Robert R. Price (Palo Alto, Calif.), Svyatoslav Korneev (San Jose, Calif.), Matt Patterson (Raleigh, N.C.), Adrian Lew (Stanford, Calif.), Brendan Mcnamara (Durham, N.C.) and Eli Wilson (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image processing techniques for determining print quality for a 3D printer are disclosed. An example method includes obtaining an image of material jetted from a nozzle of the 3D printer. The ...