US Patent Issued to Sodick on March 4 for "Build region limitation unit and additive manufacturing apparatus having the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,041, issued on March 4, was assigned to Sodick Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Build region limitation unit and additive manufacturing apparatus having the same" was invented by Shuji Okazaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Katsuhiro Nakano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A build region limitation unit for an additive manufacturing apparatus includes a movable unit fixed to a build table and a non-movable unit placed on a base frame. The movable unit includes a first anti-scattering frame provided to protrude upward. The non-movable unit includes a flat plate that covers a first build region with a portion other than an opening an...