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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 22, 2021
Applicant:

Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Nurcan Gecer Ulu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Erva Ulu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Walter Hsiao, San Mateo, CA (US);

Jiahao Li, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 64/118 (2017.01); B29C 64/393 (2017.01); B29C 64/40 (2017.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01); B33Y 30/00 (2015.01); B33Y 50/02 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 64/118 (2017.08); B29C 64/393 (2017.08); B29C 64/40 (2017.08); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 30/00 (2014.12); B33Y 50/02 (2014.12);
Abstract

A system for three-dimensional printing of an object is provided. The system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium communicatively coupled to the processor and storing instructions that when executed by the processor are configured to cause the processor to perform operations including determine optimized build orientation based on the object and one or more user indicated surface quality characteristics, generate a plurality of layers comprising one or more support polygons, each layer of the plurality of layers corresponding to a slice in a three-dimensional ('3D') printing process, and generate, for each of the one or more support polygons, a corresponding toolpath, wherein a spacing between each generated toolpath is determined based on the user indicated surface quality characteristics.


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