US Patent Issued to MARKFORGED on Nov. 3 for "3D printing with partial part rotation and reinforcement" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,786, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MARKFORGED INC. (Waltham, Mass.).

"3D printing with partial part rotation and reinforcement" was invented by Jessica Faust (Tyngsborough, Mass.), Joseph Roy-Mayhew (Watertown, Mass.), Benjamin Gallup (Acton, Mass.), Corey Hazeltine Walsh (Belmont, Mass.), Bruce David Jones (Sudbury, Mass.) and Peter Kelly (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D printing apparatus and method prints a partial part, and continues to print the part after the partially-printed part has been rotated. Each partial printing operation may include reinforcement via application of one or more layers of continuous fiber....