US Patent Issued to AMPRO INNOVATIONS on March 4 for "Installation for additive manufacturing by SLM or SLS" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,037, issued on March 4, was assigned to AMPRO INNOVATIONS PTY LTD (Notting Hill, Australia).

"Installation for additive manufacturing by SLM or SLS" was invented by Jack Martinich (Notting Hill, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AM installation utilising SLM or SLS a chamber of a housing with a protective atmosphere, a support structure in the chamber defines an upper horizontal surface on which a laser source is operable for focusing onto predetermined regions of a build area of the plane of the horizontal surface. The laser beam source is operable so areas of each of successive layers of powder material are sintered or fu...