US Patent Issued to Shaper Tools on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for performing a task on a material, or locating the position of a device relative to the surface of the material" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,739, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Shaper Tools Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for performing a task on a material, or locating the position of a device relative to the surface of the material" was invented by Alec Rothmyer Rivers (Oakland, Calif.) and Ilan Ellison Moyer (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the present disclosure relate generally to facilitate performing a task on a surface such as woodworking or printing. More specifically, in some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to mapping the surface of the material and determining the precise location of a tool in r...