US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on Sept. 1 for "Metal coupon with porous regions and slanted side wall(s) for turbomachine component" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,360, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Metal coupon with porous regions and slanted side wall(s) for turbomachine component" was invented by Glen A. MacMillan (Simpsonville, S.C.), Mark Carmine Bellino (Greenville, S.C.), Jesse Keller (Greenville, S.C.), Ellison A. Lenz (Greenville, S.C.), Mark Lawrence Hunt (Greenville, S.C.), Paul Albert Cook (Greenville, S.C.) and Nathan Nicholas Ostrout (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufactured (AM) metal coupon for a turbomachine component is provided. The component includes an airfoil body having a pressure s...