US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on Jan. 28 for "Method of applying a plurality of energy beams in additive manufacturing" (German, Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,451, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Bayern, Germany).

"Method of applying a plurality of energy beams in additive manufacturing" was invented by Jan Pascal Bogner (Berlin), David Rule (Seattle), Julius Schurb (Berlin) and Fabio Witte (Gavle, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of applying a plurality of energy beams in the additive manufacture of a component includes a) providing a first and a second energy beam, each set up for the irradiation of a layer of a powder bed, wherein the first beam scans over a first irradiation area and the second beam scans over a second irradiation a...