US Patent Issued to Contour Crafting on April 21 for "System and methods for construction 3D printing" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,026, issued on April 21, was assigned to Contour Crafting Corp. (Marina del Rey, Calif.).

"System and methods for construction 3D printing" was invented by Behrokh Khoshnevis (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a construction three-dimensional (3D) printing system includes a construction three-dimensional printer having a tower, an articulable arm that extends from the tower, the arm including a proximal arm segment that is mounted to the tower at its proximal end and a distal arm segment whose proximal end is pivotally mounted to a distal end of the proximal arm segment, wherein the arm is conf...