US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on Feb. 24 for "Additively manufactured object using mask over opening for coating" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,726, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Additively manufactured object using mask over opening for coating" was invented by Matthew Troy Hafner (Honea Path, S.C.), Christopher Donald Porter (Greenville, S.C.), Zachary John Snider (Simpsonville, S.C.) and Jeffrey Clarence Jones (Simpsonville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additively manufactured (AM) object may include a body including an opening in an exterior surface thereof, the opening having a shape and a first area at the exterior surface of the body. A mask may be positioned over the opening. The mask has the shape ...