US Patent Issued to Formlabs on March 24 for "Support structures techniques for additive fabrication and related systems and methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,242, issued on March 24, was assigned to Formlabs Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Support structures techniques for additive fabrication and related systems and methods" was invented by Benjamin FrantzDale (Harvard, Mass.) and Samuel Wainwright (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for generating a support structure that connects to a part while avoiding connecting to regions that include one or more less desirable features, such as at edges, corners and/or high detail regions. A computing device may be configured to identify regions of the surface of a part that contain less desirable surface feat...