US Patent Issued to Additive Industries on March 18 for "Method and apparatus for producing an object by means of additive manufacturing" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,876, issued on March 18, was assigned to Additive Industries B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for producing an object by means of additive manufacturing" was invented by Ronnie Herman Anna Hensen (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Mark Herman Else Vaes (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Rob Peter Albert Van Haendel (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an object by additive manufacturing including receiving in a process chamber a bath of material wherein a surface level of the bath of material defines an object working area, solidifying by a solidifying device a selective layer-part of th...