US Patent Issued to Stratasys Powder Production on July 14 for "Method for preparing virtual build volumes" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,023, issued on July 14, was assigned to Stratasys Powder Production Ltd. (London).

"Method for preparing virtual build volumes" was invented by Robert May (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing virtual build volumes for the manufacture of three-dimensional objects. The virtual build volume represents an actual build volume over which one or more objects are to be built. The method includes the steps of: (a) receiving one or more object models, the object model(s) defining the intended dimensions of each of the objects; (b) applying a transformation to an initial virtual build volume to create a reduced virtual ...