ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,980, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER- UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH (Ditzingen, Germany).

"Container arrangement of an unpacking device for a manufacturing device, unpacking device having such a container arrangement, and manufacturing device" was invented by Daniel Giek (Stuttgart, Germany), Wolfgang Laib (Besigheim, Germany), Christos Ispikoudis (Leonberg, Germany) and Manuel Geng (Ueberlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container arrangement of an unpacking device for a manufacturing device for additive manufacturing of a three-dimensional component is provided. The container arrangement includes a construct...