US Patent Issued to Freeform Future on Dec. 16 for "Independent laser-beam steering for laser beamforming in metal additive manufacturing using powder-bed fusion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,636, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Freeform Future Corp. (Hawthorne, Calif.).

"Independent laser-beam steering for laser beamforming in metal additive manufacturing using powder-bed fusion" was invented by Derek Schmuland (El Segundo, Calif.), Thomas J Ronacher (Los Angeles) and Erik Palitsch (Manhattan Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal additive manufacturing system includes a powder bed for powdered metal, a plurality of lasers to generate a plurality of laser beams, and a plurality of scanners to independently steer respective laser beams of the plurality of laser beams into laser-beam clusters on selected p...