US Patent Issued to NIKON on March 18 for "Build system, build method, computer program, control apparatus to build an object utilizing an irradiation optical system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,883, issued on March 18, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Build system, build method, computer program, control apparatus to build an object utilizing an irradiation optical system" was invented by Kazuki Ueno (Fukaya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A build system is provided with: a build apparatus that performs a build process for forming a build object by supplying build materials to an irradiation area of an energy beam from a supply system while irradiating a target object with the energy beam from an irradiation system; and a change apparatus that is configured to change a relative position between the energy beam a...