ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,176, issued on July 21, was assigned to KYORAKU Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Modeled object and its manufacturing method, method of creating modeling data" was invented by Ryohei Yuasa (Yamato, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a modeled object manufacturable with high precision in a short amount of time that may have a complex-shaped base structure. According to the present invention, the object is manufactured from modeling data prepared by selecting part of tool paths, from source data, for forming respective single-layer structures obtained by slicing a base structure at predetermined modeling pitch...