US Patent Issued to Siemens on July 15 for "Method and assembly for separating excess material from an additively manufactured component" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,230, issued on July 15, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and assembly for separating excess material from an additively manufactured component" was invented by Meinhard Paffrath (Feldkirchen, Germany), Dirk Hartmann (ABling, Germany) and Christoph Kiener (Bayern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To separate excess material, the component moved by a movement device that is controlled by movement data, and a fill level of the component with material is measured. A process for emptying material from the component simulated for each different initial fill level with material, wherein movement data, which specify a simul...