US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on Feb. 25 for "Laser-assisted additive manufacturing" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,478, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Laser-assisted additive manufacturing" was invented by Stavros G. Demos (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Laser additive manufacturing apparatus, systems, and methods for the fabrication of high quality freeform high value structures. The apparatus, systems, and methods utilize a material powder having varying particle size and shape as raw material. It can also be adopted to use a wire as the feed material."

The patent was filed on Oct. 1, 2019, under Application No. 16/589,362.

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