US Patent Issued to Composite Technology R & D on March 17 for "Additively manufactured metal casings" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,173, issued on March 17, was assigned to Composite Technology R & D PTY Ltd. (Sydney).

"Additively manufactured metal casings" was invented by Jeffrey Lang (Sydney) and Anthony J Khouri (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the bomb casing (1) defines a generally conical nose portion (2) and a cylindrical body portion (3). At least one, and more preferably both, of the generally conical nose portion (2) and/or the cylindrical body portion (3) are formed from an additive manufacturing process, which is preferably cold-gas dynamic spraying of metal particles onto a support member. In one embodiment, the generally con...