US Patent Issued to Volkmann on Oct. 27 for "Drying process, drying device and vacuum conveyor with drying" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,851, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Volkmann GmbH (Soest, Germany).

"Drying process, drying device and vacuum conveyor with drying" was invented by Christopher Tegelkamp (Buren, Germany) and Roman Jager (Soest, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and to a device for drying a powdered and/or granular material for additive manufacturing, in particular for drying a metal powder or a metal powder blend. The material to be dried is contained in an evacuable volume, in particular in a vacuum conveyor. The evacuable volume is fluidically connected to a vacuum pump arrangement. The vacuum pump arrangement is fluidically conne...