US Patent Issued to BAE Systems on March 3 for "Method of additive manufacturing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,883, issued on March 3, was assigned to BAE Systems plc (London).

"Method of additive manufacturing" was invented by Peter Neil Stewart (Balderstone, Great Britain) and Howard James Price (Balderstone, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of additive manufacturing an article from a feed material in a chamber includes evacuating at least some of a first gas from the chamber, thereby reducing a pressure therein from a first pressure to a second pressure and reducing the first gas from a first concentration to a second concentration. At least some of the first gas is then gettered from the chamber using a getter, thereb...