US Patent Issued to II-VI DELAWARE on Feb. 11 for "Additive manufacturing in metals with a fiber array laser source and adaptive multi-beam shaping" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,763, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to II-VI DELAWARE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Additive manufacturing in metals with a fiber array laser source and adaptive multi-beam shaping" was invented by Mikhail A. Vorontsov (Dayton, Ohio) and Abtin Ataei (Oakwood, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that uses a scalable array of individually controllable laser beams that are generated by a fiber array system to process materials into an object. The adaptive control of individual beams may include beam power, focal spot width, centroid position, scanning orientation, amplitude and frequency, of individual beams. Laser beam micro scan...