ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,183, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Implanted 3D printing quality assurance control" was invented by Tiberiu Suto (Franklin, N.Y.), Jessica Nahulan (Markham, Canada), Carolina Garcia Delgado (Zapopan, Mexico) and Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for quality control in 3D printing is provided. The present invention may include receiving a print job for a 3D printer, wherein the print job includes a digital model. The present invention may include monitoring the printing process of the di...