US Patent Issued to Stratasys on May 13 for "Method for controlling dimensional tolerances, surface quality, and print time in 3D-printed parts" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,738, issued on May 13, was assigned to Stratasys Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Method for controlling dimensional tolerances, surface quality, and print time in 3D-printed parts" was invented by Joel Ong (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating print images for additive manufacturing includes: accessing a part model; accessing a set of dimensional tolerances for the part model; and segmenting the part model into a set of model layers. The method also includes, and, for each model layer: detecting an edge in the model layer; assigning a dimensional tolerance to the edge; defining an outer exposure she...