US Patent Issued to GROB-WERKE on Sept. 15 for "Method and apparatus for manufacturing a component in layers" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,583, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GROB-WERKE GmbH & Co. KG (Mindelheim, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for manufacturing a component in layers" was invented by Benjamin Himmel (Munich), Johannes Glasschroder (NeusaB, Germany), Martin Otter (Memmingen, Germany), Oliver Leusch (Augsburg, Germany) and Christian Miklec (Bad Worishofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a component in layers includes dropwise application of a liquid material using a printhead. More particularly, a layer (14) of the component to be produced is divided into an outer region (20) and a central core region (18), and the...