ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,767, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of manufacturing three-dimensional shaped object, and three-dimensional shaping system" was invented by Atsushi Majima (Nagano, Japan), Kohei Adachi (Nagano, Japan) and Masaaki Ogihara (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object includes a first process of determining a moving speed of a discharge part in each of a plurality of partial paths based on an arrangement of endpoints representing a start point and an end point of the plurality of partial paths, the arrangement of the endpoints being inclu...