ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,384, issued on June 24, was assigned to PRIMA INDUSTRIE S.P.A. (Collegno, Italy).
"Method and system for additive manufacturing" was invented by Michele De Chirico (Collegno, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for additive manufacturing, wherein an additive-manufacturing head (12) is provided, configured both for directing one or more jets of powders, in particular metal powders, onto a region of a working surface (110), and for directing simultaneously a laser beam onto such a region, to form a laser-beam focusing spot (LS) on the region, and wherein, during direction of the powder jets and of the laser beam, the additive...