US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on May 26 for "Braze repair using metal coupon with porous region" (South Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,741, issued on May 26, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Braze repair using metal coupon with porous region" was invented by Jacob Andrew Salm (Simpsonville, S.C.), Mark Lawrence Hunt (Greenville, S.C.), Nathan Nicholas Ostrout (Greenville, S.C.), James Warren Pemrick (Troy, N.Y.) and Stanley Frank Simpson (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component includes a body having a coupon opening defined therein, and an additively manufactured (AM) metal coupon including a dense region, a porous region adjacent the dense region, and a coupon outer surface. The porous region has a first cros...