US Patent Issued to Seurat Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Variable print chamber walls for powder bed fusion additive manufacturing" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,145, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Seurat Technologies Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Variable print chamber walls for powder bed fusion additive manufacturing" was invented by James A. DeMuth (Woburn, Mass.), Erik Toomre (Los Altos, Calif.), Francis L Leard (Sudbury, Mass.), Kourosh Kamshad (Hudson, N.H.), Heiner Fees (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Eugene M. Berdichevsky (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Additive manufacturing can involve dispensing a powdered material to form a layer of a powder bed on a support surface of a build platform. A portion of the layer of the powder bed may be selectively melted or fu...