US Patent Issued to VulcanForms on Sept. 30 for "Optical fiber connector for additive manufacturing systems" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,601, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to VulcanForms Inc. (Devens, Mass.).

"Optical fiber connector for additive manufacturing systems" was invented by Raghav Aggarwal (Somerville, Mass.) and Martin C. Feldmann (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments relate to additive manufacturing systems. In some embodiments, an additive manufacturing system may include a plurality of laser energy sources, an optics assembly configured to direct laser energy onto a build surface, and an optical fiber connector positioned between the plurality of laser energy sources and the optics assembly. A first plurality of optica...