ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,327, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SCIAKY INC. (Chicago).
"Electron beam layer manufacturing" was invented by Scott Stecker (Willow Springs, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process and apparatus for free form fabrication of a three-dimensional work piece comprising (a) feeding raw material in a solid state to a first predetermined location: (b) depositing the raw material onto a substrate as a molten pool deposit under a first processing condition; (C) monitoring the molten pool deposit for a preselected condition; (d) comparing information about the preselected condition of the monitored molten pool deposit with a predete...