US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on July 8 for "Method of additively manufacturing transparent lenses for luminaries" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,879, issued on July 8, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Method of additively manufacturing transparent lenses for luminaries" was invented by Jeremy M. Baerga Santiago (Southfield, Mich.), Namrata Salunke (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Javed Mapkar (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional lens comprises inputting a lens template into a controller, depositing a first layer of lens material onto a work surface according to the lens Template, and successively depositing additional filamentous layers of the lens material onto the first layer. The deposition of la...