US Patent Issued to GE VERNOVA INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY on June 23 for "Powder removal system for powder based manufacturing methods" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,711, issued on June 23, was assigned to GE VERNOVA INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Powder removal system for powder based manufacturing methods" was invented by Clay Thomas Griffis (Greenville, S.C.) and Archie L. Swanner (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a powder removal system for removing powder from an additive manufacturing component with a number of component voids therein. The powder removal system may include a build plate with a number of build plate conduits that aligns with the component voids, a powder removal plate with a number of powder removal plate co...