US Patent Issued to EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems on Feb. 17 for "Method and device for metering building material in a generative production method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,093, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems (Krailling, Germany).

"Method and device for metering building material in a generative production method" was invented by Andre Danzig (Lindenberg, Germany), Rainer Salzberger (Buch am Erlbach, Germany), Jochen Philippi (Grafelfing, Germany), Andreas Baumann (Grafelfing, Germany), Gerd Cantzler (Neuried, Germany) and Robert Jelin (Wielenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing an object in a build area by successive layer-by-layer solidification of a building material in powder form. The method includes applying a layer of the buil...