ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,794, issued on June 30, was assigned to MAKEBLOCK HONGKONG HOLDING Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Implementing rendered fabrication results with computer numerically controlled machines based on natural language descriptions of desired fabrication results" was invented by Daniel Shapiro (Mercer Island, Wash.), Michael Natkin (Seattle), Jonathan Park (Seattle), Jack Shen (Seattle) and Adrian Quan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include one or more computing systems configured to perform functions comprising: (i) receiving a natural language description of a desired fabrication result; (ii) causing a software engine to generate...