Sigma Labs Inc (SASI)

[Capt_Smith77]

It's been known for well over a year now that licensing of their products woudln't begin until at least 2018. We now know that September is the month where the EAP agreements are supposed to end, and licensing will become available to potential customers. As the company has no longer offered EAP agreements since late last year based on the company's decision to push towards working with companies looking to increase productivity yields, it's also been a known fact that the company likely wouldn't see much, if any licensing agreements until September of this year, which is when licensing will begin for their products.

The CEO has been loading up on stock options on a monthly basis given by the company, and there's been plenty of chatter that someone could be interested at buying the company relatively soon, which could be a reason for his sudden award of options. There's even language of buyout parameters with his stock incentives.

They're working with Darpa, which has gone on for several years and should end within a few weeks time, Laser Zentrum Nord (Belgium) on serial production of aerospace parts, NIST, etc. They have many companies already using their product with the EAP, and several companies are known to already have plans for Sigma's involvement in inspecting production-grade parts with their software, and have commercial agreements already in place.

Sure, Nasa is working on their own method, but if you ready into it, they're years out at best and admit it's a new method (ultrasonic, IIRC) and still in it's infancy. EOState only works with their own printers, unlike Sigma's software and hardware setup, which is machine agnostic and can be installed into practically any 3d printer. Materialize has their "inspect" software, which I don't believe is used until after the part is made. All in all, Sigma's software is the only in-situ inspection software that I see companies gravitating towards, and there's been absolutely zero talk around here about other companies gaining any type of traction. Nobody else seems to be working with the Darpas, NISTs, and Zentrum Nord's of the additive manufacturing world, and these are some of the real heavy hitters that are working towards serial part production.

As for GE's newly approved patents, there's already been discussion on the differences, and how Sigma's patent encompasses a lot more.


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