US Patent Issued to ADDUP on April 7 for "Module for supplying additive manufacturing powder allowing the transfer of powder into a container under an inert atmosphere" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,601, issued on April 7, was assigned to ADDUP (Cebazat, France).

"Module for supplying additive manufacturing powder allowing the transfer of powder into a container under an inert atmosphere" was invented by Ali El Ouazzani Tayibi (Cebazat, France) and Ludovic Angele (Cebazat, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A provision module (2) for providing additive manufacturing powder comprises: a main hopper (29) for storing additive manufacturing powder, the main hopper (29) being designed to be connected to a manufacturing module (4) configured to additively manufacture an object from the powder located in the main hopper (29); an inl...