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- Patent Title: Automated fabrication price quoting and fabrication ordering for computer-modeled structures
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Application No.: US17150173Application Date: 2021-01-15
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Publication No.: US11521223B2Publication Date: 2022-12-06
- Inventor: James L Jacobs , Steven M Lynch
- Applicant: Protolabs, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MN Maple Plain
- Assignee: Protolabs, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Protolabs, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Maple Plain
- Agency: Caldwell Intellectual Property Law
- Main IPC: G06Q30/02
- IPC: G06Q30/02 ; G06F30/13 ; G06F30/00 ; G06F111/02

Abstract:
A system that provides automated/semi-automated price quotations for fabricating one or more instantiations of a structure that is modeled in a computer model. The system automatedly extracts price-influencing data from the computer model. The system uses the extracted pricing data and pricing parameters to automatedly determine a firm fabrication-price quotation. In some embodiments, the system further includes fabrication ordering functionality that allows a user place a fabrication order with a fabricator based on the firm price quotation. Such systems can be implemented in any of a wide variety of manners, such as within a single computing device or across a communications network, among others. In some embodiments, functionalities of the system are integrated into computer-modeling software directly of via add-on software.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210133788A1 AUTOMATED FABRICATION PRICE QUOTING AND FABRICATION ORDERING FOR COMPUTER-MODELED STRUCTURES Public/Granted day:2021-05-06
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