US Patent Issued to REALIZER on May 26 for "Calibration of a system for selective powder melting" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,702, issued on May 26, was assigned to REALIZER GMBH (Borchen, Germany).

"Calibration of a system for selective powder melting" was invented by Andreas Redler (Paderborn, Germany), Meinolf Tepper (Rheda-Wiedenbruck, Germany) and Daniel Isenberg (Paderborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating a system that includes a build chamber to accommodate powder to be melted and an object to be produced and a height-adjustable build plate support in the build chamber to support a build plate. The system also includes a controllable optical unit comprising (1) a laser source, (2) a plurality of lenses, and (3) a mirror...