US Patent Issued to Renishaw on June 10 for "Metal powder bed additive manufacturing apparatus and methods" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,070, issued on June 10, was assigned to Renishaw PLC (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).

"Metal powder bed additive manufacturing apparatus and methods" was invented by Adrian Porch (Pontypridd, Great Britain), Steven Cripps (Taunton, Great Britain) and Nyle Parker (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder bed fusion apparatus includes a build platform movable in a build sleeve, the build platform for supporting a bed of metal powder, a powder layer formation device for forming layers of metal powder to form the bed, a scanner for directing an energy beam to selected regions of each layer to consolidat...