US Patent Issued to General Electric, Concept Laser on Feb. 17 for "Alignment of energy beams in additive manufacturing systems and machines" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,105, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and Concept Laser GmbH (Lichtenfels, Germany).

"Alignment of energy beams in additive manufacturing systems and machines" was invented by Fabian Zeulner (Lichtenfels, Germany), David Scott Simmermon (Felicity, Ohio) and Laura L. Banks (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing system may include an irradiation device configured to emit an energy beam having a manufacturing power level selected to additively manufacturing a three-dimensional object by irradiating a powder material, and a controller configured to perform one ...