US Patent Issued to LPW TECHNOLOGY on July 14 for "Apparatus and method for producing an article by additive manufacturing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,034, issued on July 14, was assigned to LPW TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Widnes, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and method for producing an article by additive manufacturing" was invented by Ben Ian Ferrar (Alsagar, Great Britain), Nicholas Paul Weeks (Over Peover, Great Britain) and Philip Anthony Carroll (Lymm, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus for producing an article by additive manufacturing comprising a first container and a second container from which powder may be selectively dispensed to form an article, wherein the first container and the second container contain the same type of pow...