US Patent Issued to Nikon SLM Solutions on May 13 for "Method of treating a gas stream and method of operating an apparatus for producing a three-dimensional work piece" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,388, issued on May 13, was assigned to Nikon SLM Solutions AG (Luebeck, Germany).

"Method of treating a gas stream and method of operating an apparatus for producing a three-dimensional work piece" was invented by Matthew Schulz-Sciberras (Luebeck, Germany), Patrick Sharp (Luebeck, Germany) and Isabell Huebinger (Luebeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of treating a gas stream (32) containing combustible and/or reactive particles (34) at least a part of the particles (34) contained in the gas stream (32) is separated from the gas stream (32) by means of a separation device (36). The particles (34) separated from t...