US Patent Issued to Additive Industries on Sept. 16 for "Method and apparatus for producing an object by means of additive manufacturing" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,320, issued on Sept. 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 Sven Sijmen Van Iersel (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Mark Herman Else Vaes (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing method including the steps of receiving a bath of powdered material having a surface level defining an object working area, solidifying a selective layer-part of the bath of powdered material on the surface level, extracting powdered material originating from the bath of powdered material, and ...