US Patent Issued to Freeform Future on April 22 for "Process monitoring and feedback for metal additive manufacturing using powder-bed fusion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,424, issued on April 22, was assigned to Freeform Future Corp. (Hawthorne, Calif.).

"Process monitoring and feedback for metal additive manufacturing using powder-bed fusion" was invented by Derek Schmuland (El Segundo, Calif.), Thomas J Ronacher (Los Angeles) and Erik Palitsch (Manhattan Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of metal additive manufacturing includes generating a plurality of laser beams and directing the plurality of laser beams to selected portions of a surface of a powder bed of powdered metal. The method also includes monitoring the powder bed while performing the generating and directing, and adjus...