US Patent Issued to Xerox on Sept. 30 for "Shape modification for self-supporting structures in additive manufacturing" (North Carolina, Connecticut, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,852, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Shape modification for self-supporting structures in additive manufacturing" was invented by Jiangce Chen (Mansfield Center, Conn.), Morad Behandish (San Mateo, Calif.) and Matt Patterson (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure teaches techniques, devices, and systems for automatically modifying a 3-Dimensional (3D) object model. The apparatus comprising a memory and a processing device coupled to the memory. The processor and the memory are configured to obtain an input 3D object model comprising an input 3D mesh, analyze the input 3D mesh...