US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 6 for "Method of producing manufactured object and manufactured object" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,457, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method of producing manufactured object and manufactured object" was invented by Kanako Oshima (Tokyo), Hisato Yabuta (Machida, Japan) and Nobuhiro Yasui (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a manufactured object including forming the manufactured object by performing, once or a plurality of times, a step of forming a powder layer from material powders containing powders of an inorganic compound and a step of irradiating a predetermined region of a surface of the powder layer with an energy beam and thereby fusing/solidifying the material powd...