US Patent Issued to Bernd Burchard on July 15 for "Method and devices for integrating functional fibers into a workpiece during a selective laser sintering process and an FDM 3D printing process" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,053, issued on July 15, was assigned to Bernd Burchard (Essen, Germany).

"Method and devices for integrating functional fibers into a workpiece during a selective laser sintering process and an FDM 3D printing process" was invented by Benedikt Burchard (Essen, Germany), Michael Baranowski (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Jurgen Fleischer (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process embeds functional fibers in a workpiece during selective laser sintering. In a process variant, parts of a powder layer are sintered before the insertion process, for example using a laser beam. A heating device then subsequently re-melts the alrea...