US Patent Issued to Ultimaker on July 28 for "Method of determining toolpaths for an infill structure for a digital 3D model" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,171, issued on July 28, was assigned to Ultimaker B.V. (Zaltbommel, Netherlands).

"Method of determining toolpaths for an infill structure for a digital 3D model" was invented by Tim Kuipers (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of determining toolpaths for an infill structure for a digital 3D model. The invention provides for a framework for planning toolpaths with control over the adaptive width for minimizing over- and underfill and introduce a beading scheme which reduces the bead width variation compared to the state of the art. We show that this framework supports various control...