US Patent Issued to Carbon on March 17 for "Systems and methods for additively manufacturing semi-custom objects" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,703, issued on March 17, was assigned to Carbon Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for additively manufacturing semi-custom objects" was invented by James J. Sauerbaum Jr. (Kingston, Mass.), Matthew S. Iczkowski (Denver) and Kieran Mak (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of making a semi-custom product for a user, includes the steps of: (a) providing a set of data files, each data file representing a distinct variant of the product; (b) providing personal data from the user, the personal data including at least first and second distinct user attributes; (c) providing product preferenc...