ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,968, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sandvik Machining Solutions AB (Sandviken, Sweden).
"Method of producing an additive manufactured object" was invented by Per Viklund (Rengsjo, Sweden), Einar Ottesen (Ranheim, Norway) and Ralf Lehto (Sandviken, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for producing an object of metal, wherein the object is built with an additive manufacturing process on at least one base device having a build surface at one end. The base device is part of a base device system, which includes the base device and a supporting means holding the base device in a fixed posit...