US Patent Issued to XEROX on July 14 for "Laser-assisted controlled heating hotspot mitigation for 3D printing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,856, issued on July 14, was assigned to XEROX Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Laser-assisted controlled heating hotspot mitigation for 3D printing" was invented by Patrick Y. Maeda (San Jose, Calif.), Adrian Lew (Stanford, Calif.) and Dogan Timucin (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of three-dimensional printing that includes heating a portion of a build surface by impinging multiple laser pulses onto the build surface in a time controlled pattern to provide a desired heated build surface prior to depositing a molten material onto the build surface. The time controlled pattern of laser pulses includes at ...