US Patent Issued to Concept Laser on March 18 for "Device for the additive production of three-dimensional components" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,777, issued on March 18, was assigned to Concept Laser GmbH (Lichtenfels, Germany).

"Device for the additive production of three-dimensional components" was invented by Frank Herzog (Lichtenfels, Germany), Florian Bechmann (Lichtenfels, Germany), Tobias Bokkes (Untersiemau, Germany) and Fabian Zeulner (Lichtenfels, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process monitoring system for an additive manufacturing apparatus includes a scanner, a sensor device, and an optical focus-tracking device. The scanner includes an optical adjustment device that directs a melting beam emitted by a laser melting device onto a construction plane to ...