US Patent Issued to Pantheon Design on Aug. 4 for "Apparatus, methods, and systems for calibrating 3D printers" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,779, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Pantheon Design Ltd. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Apparatus, methods, and systems for calibrating 3D printers" was invented by Alex Wiecke (Vancouver, Canada), Riley Gunn (Vancouver, Canada) and Zhenwei Cao (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of apparatus, methods, and systems for calibrating 3D printers are described. One aspect is an apparatus that may comprise: a nozzle support structure that operatively attaches a nozzle to a 3D printer and comprises a strained region that experiences a surface strain of between approximately 1x10-7 and approximately 1x10-4 responsive to a cont...