US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 25 for "Inorganic material powder and method of manufacturing a structural body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,769, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Inorganic material powder and method of manufacturing a structural body" was invented by Hiroshi Saito (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuhiro Sekine (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuhiro Yasui (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kanako Oshima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To achieve local melting of an inorganic material powder containing an inorganic material as a main component in an additive manufacturing technology, to thereby achieve high shaping accuracy. Provided is an inorganic material powder to be used in an additive manufacturing method involving performing shaping through irradiation with...