ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,800, issued on April 29, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Processing system" was invented by Takeshi Matsuda (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system is provided with: a support apparatus that supports an object; a processing apparatus that performs an additive processing on the object by supplying powdery materials to the object; a driving power source that generates driving power; a driving power transmission member that transmits the driving power to at least one of the support apparatus and the processing apparatus; a partition member that is disposed between the driving power source and at least a p...