US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on May 12 for "Additive manufacturing system with partially flexible build platform" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,290, issued on May 12, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Additive manufacturing system with partially flexible build platform" was invented by James J. Murray (Mauldin, S.C.), Archie Lee Swanner Jr. (Easley, S.C.) and Evan John Dozier (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing (AM) system includes a build chamber, a base adjustably coupled to the build chamber, and a build material applicator for depositing a build material above a build platform for creating the object. The build platform includes a fixed region fixedly and rigidly coupled to the base and a flex regi...