US Patent Issued to Concept Laser on Aug. 12 for "Apparatus for additively manufacturing three-dimensional objects" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,106, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Concept Laser GmbH (Lichtenfels, Germany).

"Apparatus for additively manufacturing three-dimensional objects" was invented by Tim KlauBner (Kronach, Germany) and Fabian Zeulner (Lichtenfels, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus (11) for additively manufacturing three-dimensional objects (2) by means of successive layerwise selective irradiation and consolidation of layers of a build material (19) which can be consolidated by means of an energy source, wherein a position determination device (1) is provided that is adapted to determine position data relating to a position of at least...