US Patent Issued to Pro-Beam on Aug. 4 for "Method and apparatus for additive manufacturing of a workpiece" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,660, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Pro-Beam GmbH & Co. KGAA (Gilching, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for additive manufacturing of a workpiece" was invented by Thorsten Lower (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of additively manufacturing a workpiece (22) from a powder material, comprises the steps of: (a) providing a device (15, 17) for receiving a powder bed (20) of the powdery material, in particular in a vacuum process chamber (11), and a beam generator (12) adapted to direct an energy beam (13) to laterally different locations of the powder bed (20); b) layer-by-layer application of the powdery material to the p...