ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,770, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Seurat Technologies Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Additive manufacturing system for object creation from powder using a high flux laser for two-dimensional printing" was invented by Ning Duanmu (Nashua, N.H.), James A. DeMuth (Woburn, Mass.), Andrew J. Bayramian (Marblehead, Mass.), Yiyu Shen (Tewksbury, Mass.) and Drew W. Kissinger (Carlisle, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of additive manufacture is disclosed. The method can include providing an enclosure surrounding a powder bed and having an atmosphere including helium gas. A high flux laser beam is directed at a defined two dimens...