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Additive manufacturing technologies have the potential to change the paradigm of manufacturing. In this scenario, the main objective of this research work is to gain, through a patent study, an overall view of the trends of laser-based additive manufacturing technologies. The database used in order to retrieve patent information is Patseer and the data have been analyzed through the text mining and analytics package called VantagePoint. From the data obtained it can be concluded that, Laser-based additive manufacturing is an emerging technology with huge market potential. Undoubtedly, China is the prime mover of basic research in this technology development. However, Germany and the United States are the ones who are developing the market applications.
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To be more precise, there are 2589 applications, 537 granted utility models, 317 patents, 14 others, 1 granted innovation patent and 1 utility model application.
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Zarrabeitia, E., Bildosola, I., Río Belver, R.M., Alvarez, I., Cilleruelo-Carrasco, E. (2019). Laser Additive Manufacturing: A Patent Overview. In: Ortiz, Á., Andrés Romano, C., Poler, R., García-Sabater, JP. (eds) Engineering Digital Transformation. Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96005-0_23
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