ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,780, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Additive Industries B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for producing an object by means of additive manufacturing" was invented by Rob Peter Albert Van Haendel (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Erwin Wijn (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for producing an object by additive manufacturing including the steps of determining, via a first determining unit, a characteristic of a beam of electromagnetic radiation at a first position of the beam and determining, via a second determining unit, the characteristic of the beam of electromagnetic radiation at a seco...