ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,467, issued on May 27, was assigned to VulcanForms Inc. (Devens, Mass.).
"Laser control systems for additive manufacturing" was invented by Jan Pawel Komsta (Northborough, Mass.), Alexander Dunbar (Watertown, Mass.) and Matthew Sweetland (Bedford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Laser control systems and related methods for controlling arrays of lasers are disclosed. A laser control system may include a first controller configured to generate a trigger signal based on a position of a laser array, and a second controller configured to send a firing signal to one or more lasers of the laser array upon receiving the trigger signal....