US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on July 7 for "Electrostatic powder remover for powder bed fusion additive manufacturing" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,370, issued on July 7, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Electrostatic powder remover for powder bed fusion additive manufacturing" was invented by Michael John Troksa (Veradale, Wash.), Ziheng Wu (Seattle) and Eric S. Elton (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system for removing an upper layer of powder from a powder bed, wherein the powder bed includes metal powder particles. The system makes use of an electrode subsystem having an electrode and a dielectric layer secured to the electrode. A metallic build plate is used for supporting the ...