US Patent Issued to ULTIMAKER on Feb. 17 for "Additive manufacturing system with a sealed build chamber" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,099, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ULTIMAKER B.V. (Zaltbommel, Netherlands).

"Additive manufacturing system with a sealed build chamber" was invented by Raymond Houwing (Geldermalsen, Netherlands) and Kornelis Hermanus Welling (Geldermalsen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is an additive manufacturing system having a build chamber, a plurality of tools and a plurality of tool bays where each tool bay is arranged to store one tool. A gantry is arranged to select one tool and removes the selected tool from a tool bay. A tool mount is slidably arranged on the gantry and to detachably couple the selected t...