ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,220, issued on March 31, was assigned to Relativity Space Inc. (Long Beach, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for using wire printing process data to predict material properties and part quality" was invented by Duncan McCallum (Lexington, Mass.), Salvador Barriga (Burlington, Mass.), Forrest Pieper (Watertown, Mass.), Elad Taig (Lexington, Mass.), Paul Burke (Framingham, Mass.) and Kevin Cedrone (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for using printing process data to predict quality measures for three-dimensional (3D) printed objects and properties of the materials comprising the 3D ...