US Patent Issued to General Electric, Concept Laser on March 17 for "Additive manufacturing build units with process gas inertization systems" (American, German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,446, issued on March 17, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Concept Laser GmbH (Lichtenfels, Germany).

"Additive manufacturing build units with process gas inertization systems" was invented by Eric Edward Halla (West Chester, Ohio), Ramakrishna Venkata Mallina (Mason, Ohio), Kishore Ramakrishnan (Rexford, N.Y.), Shashwat Swami Jaiswal (Bangalore, India), Mohammed Mounir Shalaby (Mason, Ohio) and Peter Pontiller-Schymura (Kulmbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A build unit for additively manufacturing three-dimensional objects may include an energy beam system, an irradiation chamber, an inertizat...