US Patent Issued to Nikon SLM Solutions, RAYLASE on Aug. 11 for "Optical unit and system for producing a three-dimensional workpiece" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,150, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Nikon SLM Solutions AG (Luebeck, Germany) and RAYLASE GmbH (WeBling, Germany).

"Optical unit and system for producing a three-dimensional workpiece" was invented by Axel Engelhardt (Luebeck, Germany), Eduard Gieser (Luebeck, Germany), Markus Mallmann (Pocking, Germany), Manuel Wiedmann (Greifenberg, Germany) and Andreas Hermann (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an optical unit for use in an apparatus for producing a three-dimensional workpiece by a beam melting process. The optical unit comprises a beam optics for generating a beam and directing the beam to a prede...