US Patent Issued to TRUMPF LASER- UND SYSTEMTECHNIK on Dec. 16 for "Planning device, manufacturing device, method and computer program product for the additive manufacture of components from a powder material" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,639, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER- UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH (Ditzingen, Germany).

"Planning device, manufacturing device, method and computer program product for the additive manufacture of components from a powder material" was invented by Bernhard Gutmann (Pfaffenhofen a.d. Glonn, Germany), Wilhelm Meiners (Aachen, Germany), Sarah Leuck (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Stefan Findeisen (Freiberg am Neckar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for planning locally selective irradiation of a working region with an energy beam in order to produce a component from a powder material arranged in the working region i...