US Patent Issued to ALD VACUUM TECHNOLOGIES on July 1 for "Additive manufacturing system for powdery starting material and method for manufacturing a component" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,796, issued on July 1, was assigned to ALD VACUUM TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hanau, Germany).

"Additive manufacturing system for powdery starting material and method for manufacturing a component" was invented by Karsten Schafer (Hunfeld, Germany), Arno Niebling (Linsengericht, Germany) and Fuad Osmanlic (Seligenstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an additive manufacturing system for powdery starting material which comprises electron beam guns as irradiation units. The system comprises an improved shielding against ionizing radiation, in particular x-rays. By use of the additive manufacturing system ...