US Patent Issued to Norsk Titanium AS on Aug. 26 for "Method and arrangement for building metallic objects by solid freeform fabrication" (Norwegian, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,363, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Norsk Titanium AS (Honefoss, Norway).

"Method and arrangement for building metallic objects by solid freeform fabrication" was invented by Ferdinand Stempfer (Aspersdorf, Austria), Hilde Loken Larsen (Oslo, Norway), Pedro Almeida (Asker, Norway) and Martin Borlaug Mathisen (Honefoss, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a systems and methods for manufacturing objects by solid freeform fabrication, especially titanium and titanium alloy objects, wherein the deposition rate is increased by using two separate heat sources, one heat source for heating the deposition area on the base m...