US Patent Issued to ADDUP, IREPA LASER on Nov. 18 for "System and method for adding material to a determined surface of a workpiece by means of a laser beam directed by a laser scanning head and lateral powder injection" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,583, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ADDUP (Cebazat, France) and IREPA LASER (Illkrich Graffenstaden, France).

"System and method for adding material to a determined surface of a workpiece by means of a laser beam directed by a laser scanning head and lateral powder injection" was invented by Jonathan Frechard (Illkirch Graffenstaden, France), Frederique Machi (Ostwald, France) and Thierry Engel (Strasbourg, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system for adding material by melting powder on a determined surface of a workpiece by means of a laser beam in order to construct a volume, the system comprising: -a laser ...