ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,501, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems (Krailling, Germany).
"Manufacturing device and method for additive manufacturing with movable gas flow supply" was invented by Stefan Zeilinger (Munich), Michael Shellabear (Krailling, Germany), Sebastian Mehl (Puchheim, Germany) and Wolfgang Untergehrer (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a manufacturing device for the additive manufacturing of a three-dimensional object and a corresponding method. The object is manufactured by applying a building material in layer-wise form and selectively solidifying the building material at point...