ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,117, issued on April 8, was assigned to Ralf Edinger (Richmond, Canada).
"Laser additive manufacturing system" was invented by Ralf Edinger (Richmond, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of a laser additive manufacturing system are described. The system comprises a laser configured to generate a laser beam, a fiber optic coupled to the laser to transmit the laser beam to a laser optic head that is coupled to the fiber optic and comprises a focus lens to focus the light beam. The laser optic head is configured to slide along a sliding mechanism in X-direction. A powder feeder is used to continuously move in Y-direction and ...