ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,932, issued on June 10, was assigned to TRUMPF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING ITALIA S.R.L. (Schio Vi, Italy).
"Method and planning device for planning a locally selective irradiation of a working area, computer program, method and manufacturing device for additively manufacturing an object from a powder material" was invented by Massimo Rigoni (Asiago, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for planning a locally selective irradiation of a working area with a plurality of energy beams by displacing the plurality of energy beams along a plurality of irradiation vectors over a powder material layer of a powder material arranged in the ...