US Patent Issued to EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems on March 3 for "Method and apparatus for irradiating a material with an energy beam" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,899, issued on March 3, was assigned to EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems (Krailling, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for irradiating a material with an energy beam" was invented by Peter Holfelder (Neufahrn bei Freising, Germany) and Armin Witte (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an irradiation device for locally melting a material are described, wherein an area of incidence of the energy beam on the material is moved. In the process, at least one first energy beam and one second energy beam are generated, the second energy beam is moved relative to the first energy beam and the first energy beam and the second energ...