ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,949, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Controller and three-dimensional modeling apparatus" was invented by Keitaro Hashizume (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller includes a processor controlling a three-dimensional modeling apparatus including a stage, an injection unit injecting a modeling material, and a movement unit relatively moving the stage and the injection unit, and a memory unit in which modeling path information and correspondence information are stored, wherein the modeling path information is information representing respective modeling paths of N modeling layers, t...