ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,418, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Seurat Technologies Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"High speed light valve system" was invented by Francis L. Leard (Sudbury, Mass.), James A. DeMuth (Woburn, Mass.), Andrew J. Bayramian (Marblehead, Mass.), Susanne Kras (Chelmsford, Mass.), William H. Clauson (Nashua, N.H.), Craig Garvin (Cambridge, Mass.) and Matthew Murachver (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing system includes a high power laser to form a high fluence laser beam. A 2D patternable light valve having a structure responsive to electron emission is positioned to receive and pattern light rec...