ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,678, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Seurat Technologies Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Distributed flux array" was invented by Susanne Kras (Chelmsford, Mass.), James A. DeMuth (Woburn, Mass.), Andrew J. Bayramian (Marblehead, Mass.), Francis L. Leard (Sudbury, Mass.), Drew W. Kissinger (Carlisle, Mass.) and Cote LeBlanc (Malden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes at least one laser source and a print bed. A light valve array having at least three optically addressable light valves is positioned to direct differing images at the print bed. Optics to direct multiple beams derived from the at least one laser sou...