US Patent Issued to Seurat Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Solid state routing of patterned light for additive manufacturing optimization" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,200, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Seurat Technologies Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Solid state routing of patterned light for additive manufacturing optimization" 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 solid state beam routing apparatus includes a controller and a spatial angular light valve arranged to direct a two-dimensional patterned light beam through a predetermined angle in response to an applied voltage. A bed is arranged to receive the two-dimensional patterned light beam as a succession of tiles. In some embodim...