US Patent Issued to General Electric on April 7 for "Method of heat-treating additively manufactured ferromagnetic components" (American, German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,811, issued on April 7, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Method of heat-treating additively manufactured ferromagnetic components" was invented by Francis Johnson (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Mohamed Osama (Garching, Germany), Anoop Kumar Jassal (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Raghavendra Rao Adharapurapu (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of heat-treating an additively-manufactured ferromagnetic component is presented and a related ferromagnetic component is presented. A saturation flux density of a heat-treated ferromagnetic component is greater than a saturation flux density of an as-formed ferromagn...