US Patent Issued to TRUMPF LASER-UND SYSTEMTECHNIK on Nov. 11 for "Method for operating a device for additive manufacturing of a three-dimensional object" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,976, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER-UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH (Ditzingen, Germany).

"Method for operating a device for additive manufacturing of a three-dimensional object" was invented by Marc Gronle (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a manufacturing device for additive manufacturing of a three-dimensional object includes irradiating a subregion of a build material within a building zone in which a beam of a beam source is directed onto the build material by a scanning unit. An amount of energy introduced is chosen such that the build material is solidified, so that a subregion of...