ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,520, issued on April 7, was assigned to EOS GMBH ELECTRO OPTICAL SYSTEMS (Krailling, Germany).
"Removal of part of a particle collection device" was invented by Ulrich Kleinhans (Prittriching, Germany), Philip Stroebel (Weidenbach, Germany), Christoph Schmutzler (Germering, Germany) and Marbod Kindermann (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for the removal of a part of a particle collecting device. The part is loaded with at least highly flammable particles and is removed from a process gas cleaning device of an additive manufacturing device by providing an inert gas which substantially encloses the particles,...