US Patent Issued to INSSTEK on April 7 for "Powder supply management system for laser forming device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,604, issued on April 7, was assigned to INSSTEK INC. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Powder supply management system for laser forming device" was invented by Suk Hyun Seo (Daejeon, South Korea), Won Hoe Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seon Ju Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder supply management system for a laser forming device, includes: a hopper for discharging powder; a main sampling unit which guides a portion of the powder discharged from the hopper to the laser forming device and guides the remaining powder to be discharged to another location; and a discharge monitoring unit which calculates an amount o...