US Patent Issued to Nikon SLM Solutions on March 4 for "Method and device for producing a multi-material workpiece" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,043, issued on March 4, was assigned to Nikon SLM Solutions AG (Luebeck, Germany).

"Method and device for producing a multi-material workpiece" was invented by Toni Adam Krol (Luebeck, Germany), Christopher Stengel (Luebeck, Germany) and Dieter Schwarze (Luebeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for producing a three-dimensional workpiece (12), a first raw material powder (50) is applied to a substrate (18) in order to produce a raw material powder layer consisting of the first raw material powder (50). The raw material powder layer consisting of the first raw material powder (50) is selectively irradiated with elec...