US Patent Issued to Renishaw on June 17 for "Module for additive manufacturing apparatus" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,237, issued on June 17, was assigned to Renishaw PLC (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).

"Module for additive manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Jake Samuel Ufton (Uttoxeter, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention concerns a module for insertion into an additive manufacturing apparatus. The module comprising a frame mountable in a fixed position in the additive manufacturing apparatus, the frame defining a build chamber and a dosing chamber. A build platform is movable in the build chamber for supporting a powder bed during additive manufacturing of a part. A dosing piston is movable in the dosing chamber t...