ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,584, issued on March 17, was assigned to GROB-WERKE GmbH & Co. KG (Mindelheim, Germany).
"Device for additive manufacturing of a component" was invented by Johannes Glasschroder (NeusaB, Germany), Oliver Leusch (Augsburg, Germany), Christian Miklec (Bad Worishofen, Germany), Benjamin Himmel (Grobenzell, Germany), Andreas Lang (Ettringen, Germany), Steffen Kirchner (Igling, Germany) and Martin Otter (Memmingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus (100) for additive manufacturing of a component facilitates an exchange of components that are subject to wear and/or of components that facilitate usage of different materia...