US Patent Issued to Seurat Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Switchyard beam routing of patterned light for additive manufacturing" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,849, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Seurat Technologies Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Switchyard beam routing of patterned light for additive manufacturing" was invented by James A. DeMuth (Woburn, Mass.), Francis L. Leard (Sudbury, Mass.) and Erik Toomre (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for additive manufacturing pertaining to high efficiency, energy beam patterning and beam steering to effectively and efficiently utilize the source energy. In one embodiment recycling and reuse of unwanted light includes a source of multiple light patterns produced by one or more light valves, with at leas...