US Patent Issued to OPT Industries on March 17 for "Systems, methods and file format for 3D printing of microstructures" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,700, issued on March 17, was assigned to OPT Industries Inc. (Medford, Mass.).

"Systems, methods and file format for 3D printing of microstructures" was invented by Kai-Hong Anthony Chu (Boston), Jifei Ou (Cambridge, Mass.) and Andre Schmeing (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and new file formats are provided for printing 3D microstructures. In some implementations, a new file format is provided that defines 3D objects by a wireframe model expressed as a collection of wires. Wires and their parameters are defined within the new file format, and objects may be processed to support 3D rendering operatio...