ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,844, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to VulcanForms Inc. (Devens, Mass.).
"Optical fibers including endcaps for use in additive manufacturing" was invented by Manuel Joseph Leonardo (Bolton, Mass.) and Martin C. Feldmann (Sudbury, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for additive manufacturing are generally described. According to certain aspects, endcaps optically coupled to optical fibers of additive manufacturing systems are provided. In some aspects, methods for reducing a power area density of laser energy within an endcap are provided. The endcaps described herein may be used to at least partially mitigate t...