US Patent Issued to NIKON SLM SOLUTIONS on March 31 for "Resource management system and additive manufacturing facility with such" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,223, issued on March 31, was assigned to NIKON SLM SOLUTIONS AG (Lubeck, Germany).

"Resource management system and additive manufacturing facility with such" was invented by Bernd Muller (Lubeck, Germany), Kim Kulling (Lubeck, Germany), Jan Philipp Luhrig (Lubeck, Germany) and Daniel Schmidt (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource management system (39) manages a supply of resource material and/or resource items to a plurality of at least two additive manufacturing machines (3) for additive manufacturing. The resource management system (39) includes a control unit (41) that is configured to receive a signal indica...