US Patent Issued to General Electric on Feb. 24 for "Irradiation devices with optical modulators for additively manufacturing three-dimensional objects" (Indiana, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,846, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Irradiation devices with optical modulators for additively manufacturing three-dimensional objects" was invented by William Joseph Steele (Lawrenceburg, Ind.) and David Scott Simmermon (Felicity, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An irradiation device for additively manufacturing a three-dimensional object includes two beam generation devices emitting energy beams that are characteristically different than one another. An optical modulator includes a micromirror array disposed downstream from the first and second beam generation devices. A focusing lens...