US Patent Issued to PROTOLABS on Feb. 3 for "Apparatus and method for structured part quoting" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,627, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to PROTOLABS INC. (Maple Plain, Minn.).

"Apparatus and method for structured part quoting" was invented by Austin Perry (Maple Plain, Minn.), Joshua Knutson (Maple Plain, Minn.), Robert Ford (Maple Plain, Minn.), Samuel Bosak (Maple Plain, Minn.) and Shuji Usui (Maple Plain, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for structured part quoting. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory, configured to receive part data from a user and generate a part model and a print for manufacture. The apparatus verifies an alignment datum and determines a machinability datum, and identifies any unma...