US Patent Issued to EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems on July 22 for "Method and device for generating control data for an additive manufacturing device" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,032, issued on July 22, was assigned to EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems (Krailling, Germany).

"Method and device for generating control data for an additive manufacturing device" was invented by Peter Holfelder (Neufahrn bei Freising, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and device for generating additive manufacturing control data. The control data are generated such that the energy beam has an intensity distribution, at the area of incidence on the build field, in a see tion plane running perpendicularly to the beam axis of the energy beam, which intensity distribution has at least one local minimum in a mi...