US Patent Issued to EOS of North America, AM Ventures Holding on Dec. 2 for "Additive manufacture system using light valve device" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,612, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to EOS of North America Inc. and AM Ventures Holding GmbH (Starnberg, Germany).

"Additive manufacture system using light valve device" was invented by Donald Lewis Vanelli (Novi, Mich.), Lance Bruce Shanklin (Novi, Mich.), Gregory Richard Hayes (Novi, Mich.) and Hakan Pfeiffer (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object build area is exposed to a radiation beam, such as a laser light source, which has been processed and controlled through a grating light valve or valves, or planar light valve, to thereby melt, sinter, fuse or cure predetermined portions of the build area corresponding to t...