US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Oct. 20 for "Additive manufacturing method by deposition of material under focused energy enabling production of intersecting ribs and ribbed part obtained using said method" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,629, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Additive manufacturing method by deposition of material under focused energy enabling production of intersecting ribs and ribbed part obtained using said method" was invented by Matthieu Sicre (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for additive manufacturing at least one intersection of first and second ribs by stacking layers of material, at least one layer of material of a first section of the first rib being obtained by depositing at least one bead of material that extends on respective opposite sides of the intersection. Wherein ...