US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Autonomous filament selection for multidimensional printers" (American, Canadian, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,106, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Autonomous filament selection for multidimensional printers" was invented by Tiberiu Suto (Franklin, N.Y.), Jessica Nahulan (Markham, Canada), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas) and Carolina Garcia Delgado (Zapopan, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of autonomous filament selection for multidimensional printers. The method includes obtaining multimedia associated with multidimensional prints and constituent filaments. The obtained multimedia is analyzed to extract multidimensional print features, filament features, a...