US Patent Issued to Protolabs on June 30 for "Methods and systems for generating an instantaneous quote of any part without toolpathing" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,796, issued on June 30, was assigned to Protolabs Inc. (Maple Plain, Minn.).

"Methods and systems for generating an instantaneous quote of any part without toolpathing" was invented by Stefan Emilov Atev (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and In an aspect a method of generating an instantaneous quote of any part without toolpathing, the method includes receiving, using a computing device, a geometric model of a part, constructing, using the computing device, at least a rotation-invariant feature as a function of the geometric model, predicting, using the computing device, a manufacturing time as a function of the a...