US Patent Issued to GE Avio on Aug. 11 for "Methods and apparatus for tailored grain size in an additive manufacturing environment" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,147, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GE Avio S.R.L. (Rivalta di Torino, Italy).

"Methods and apparatus for tailored grain size in an additive manufacturing environment" was invented by Agostino Scialpi (San Giorgio lonico, Italy), Edoardo Maria Peradotto (Turin, Italy) and Giuseppe Greco (Veglie, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate a tailored grain size in an additive manufacturing environment. Disclosed herein is an apparatus comprising controller circuitry to determine a configuration for manufacture of a part, the part having a first portion and...