US Patent Issued to VulcanForms on June 23 for "Additive manufacturing systems and related methods utilizing risley prism beam steering" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,741, issued on June 23, was assigned to VulcanForms Inc. (Devens, Mass.).

"Additive manufacturing systems and related methods utilizing risley prism beam steering" was invented by Martin C. Feldmann (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Additive manufacturing systems and related methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, an additive manufacturing system includes a build surface, one or more laser energy sources configured to emit laser energy, an optical phased array operatively coupled to the one or more laser energy sources, and a Risley prism assembly comprising a plurality of wedge prisms. The optical phased array inclu...