US Patent Issued to Markforged on July 28 for "3D printing and measurement apparatus and method" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,641, issued on July 28, was assigned to Markforged Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"3D printing and measurement apparatus and method" was invented by Bruce David Jones (Sudbury, Mass.), Corey Hazeltine Walsh (Boston), Yongquan Lu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Maggie Su (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of 3D printing an object includes receiving design information corresponding to an object for which a printed object is to be generated by a 3D printing operation according to a first set of print instructions, generating a plurality of measurement locations, printing successive layers which form the object, measuring the obje...