US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on May 26 for "System and method for high power diode based additive manufacturing" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,828, issued on May 26, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"System and method for high power diode based additive manufacturing" was invented by Bassem S. El-Dasher (Livermore, Calif.), Andrew J. Bayramian (Marblehead, Mass.), James A. Demuth (Woburn, Mass.), Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, Calif.) and Sharon G. Torres (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system for performing an Additive Manufacturing (AM) fabrication process on a powdered material, deposited as a powder bed and forming a substrate. The system makes use of a laser for generating a las...