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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2020
Freeform Future Corp., El Segundo, CA (US);
Derek Schmuland, El Segundo, CA (US);
Thomas J Ronacher, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Erik Palitsch, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
Freeform Future Corp., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Abstract
A metal additive manufacturing system includes a powder bed for powdered metal, a plurality of lasers to generate a plurality of laser beams, and a plurality of scanners to independently steer respective laser beams of the plurality of laser beams into laser-beam clusters on selected portions of a surface of the powder bed. A method of metal additive manufacturing includes generating a plurality of laser beams and independently steering respective laser beams of the plurality of laser beams, using a plurality of scanners, to form laser-beam clusters on selected portions of a surface of a powder bed of powdered metal. Each scanner of the plurality of scanners independently steers a respective laser beam of the plurality of laser beams.