US Patent Issued to Nikon SLM Solutions on May 27 for "Powder supply system, method of operating a powder supply system and apparatus for producing a three-dimensional work piece" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,602, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nikon SLM Solutions AG (Luebeck, Germany).

"Powder supply system, method of operating a powder supply system and apparatus for producing a three-dimensional work piece" was invented by Daniel Kopschinski (Luebeck, Germany), Karsten Huebinger (Luebeck, Germany) and Marcel Overberg (Luebeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a powder supply system (1) for use in an apparatus (100) for producing a three-dimensional work piece by irradiating layers of a raw material powder (4) with electromagnetic or particle radiation. The powder supply system (1) comprises a circu...