US Patent Issued to GE Avio on June 16 for "Additive manufacturing systems and methods for top and side compression of material during material deposition" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,393, issued on June 16, was assigned to GE Avio S.r.l. (Rivalta di Torino, Italy).

"Additive manufacturing systems and methods for top and side compression of material during material deposition" was invented by Edoardo Maria Peradotto (Turin, Italy), Emanuele Quarona (Castiglione Torinese, Italy) and Alessandro De Grassi (Ancona, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing system for producing a component includes a deposition assembly having a deposition head through which melted feedstock material is deposited, and a compression rig comprising a compression head supporting an inside roller, an outside roller opp...