ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,534, issued on May 13, was assigned to AMCM GMBH (Starnberg, Germany).
"Additive manufacturing method and system" was invented by Georg Fey (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for the additive manufacturing of at least one three-dimensional object (1) by means of a system comprising a coating unit (40) and at least two irradiation units (50), the irradiation areas of which partially overlap or are adjacent to each other, wherein the irradiation areas are adapted so that a total irradiation period for selectively solidifying one or more layers of applied build-up material (30) is minimised as requi...