US Patent Issued to Nikon SLM Solutions on March 4 for "Method of operating an apparatus for producing a three-dimensional work piece and apparatus for producing a three-dimensional work piece" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,038, issued on March 4, was assigned to Nikon SLM Solutions AG (Luebeck, Germany).

"Method of operating an apparatus for producing a three-dimensional work piece and apparatus for producing a three-dimensional work piece" was invented by Andre Schoebel (Luebeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an apparatus (10) for producing a three-dimensional work piece (18) by irradiating layers of a raw material powder with electromagnetic or particle radiation comprises the steps of a) applying a layer of raw material powder onto a carrier (12); b) selectively irradiating the layer of raw material powder with electro...