US Patent Issued to Align Technology on July 21 for "Indirect temperature monitoring for additive manufacturing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,178, issued on July 21, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Indirect temperature monitoring for additive manufacturing" was invented by Paramjot Singh (San Jose, Calif.), Joanne L Lee (San Jose, Calif.) and Viswanath Meenakshisundaram (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for manufacturing objects are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for producing an additively manufactured object includes determining a viscosity of a curable material to be used to form the additively manufactured object. The method can include determining a temperature of the curable material, ba...