US Patent Issued to Nikon SLM Solutions on March 25 for "Powder bed fusion additive manufacturing with load balancing for multiple beams" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,627, issued on March 25, was assigned to Nikon SLM Solutions AG (Lubeck, Germany).

"Powder bed fusion additive manufacturing with load balancing for multiple beams" was invented by Jan Lukas Matyssek (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing process includes fusing an area of a material layer with beams from multiple sources, each of which has a predefined fuse rate and a field of view. Efficiency of fusing is increased by estimating optimum fusing times with the use of size of the area to and fuse rates involved, determining optimum size of the area to be fused, and determining those vectors of the area that c...