US Patent Issued to Concept Laser on March 25 for "Controlling irradiation parameters of an additive manufacturing machine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,779, issued on March 25, was assigned to Concept Laser GmbH (Lichtenfels, Germany).

"Controlling irradiation parameters of an additive manufacturing machine" was invented by Rene Kopatsch (Lichtenfels, Germany), Martin Proebstle (Lichtenfels, Germany) and Dominic Graf (Weitramsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may of additively manufacturing a three-dimensional object includes determining a plurality of scanning segments for a build plane and/or for one or more object layers respectively corresponding to one or more regions of a powder bed defining the build plane, and determining an irradiation vector for irradi...