US Patent Issued to MARKFORGED on March 17 for "Apparatus and method for calibrating for skew without independent reference object and for compensating for coefficient of thermal expansion and moisture absorption" (Massachusetts, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,702, issued on March 17, was assigned to MARKFORGED INC (Waltham, Mass.).

"Apparatus and method for calibrating for skew without independent reference object and for compensating for coefficient of thermal expansion and moisture absorption" was invented by Bruce David Jones (Sudbury, Mass.), Joseph Roy-Mayhew (Watertown, Mass.), Jessica Faust (Tyngsborough, Mass.), Benjamin Gallup (Acton, Mass.) and David Steven Benhaim (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D printing apparatus and method corrects for skew in the motion components of the apparatus without the use of an independent reference object. A calibration object having fea...