ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,906, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to PERIDOT PRINT LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Surface lattice structure formation" was invented by James Andrew McCutcheon (Vancouver, Wash.), Alberto Maria Canals Pou (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Geoffrey Schmid (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system defines sub-volumes within a bounding object based on beams of a unit cell of a lattice structure for a 3D object to be built. The sub-volumes are defined based on the beams cutting through the bounding object that contains the unit cell. The system intersects the sub-volumes of the bounding object with a trimmed vers...