US Patent Issued to Freeform Future on Aug. 19 for "Lasing module for 3D printing system" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,860, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Freeform Future Corp. (Hawthorne, Calif.).

"Lasing module for 3D printing system" was invented by Derek Schmuland (El Segundo, Calif.), Thomas J. Ronacher (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and Daniel Roszhart Zehr (Erie, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D printing system uses lasers for manufacturing parts in metal additive manufacturing, such as powder-bed fusion. The lasers may be arranged on a dome-shaped structure, vertically above powdered metal. The dome-shaped structure, and arrangement of the lasers on the dome-shaped structure, permits a higher density of the lasers to be packaged onto ...