US Patent Issued to General Electric on Dec. 2 for "Tooling assembly for decreasing powder usage in a powder bed additive manufacturing process" (New York, Ohio, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,607, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Tooling assembly for decreasing powder usage in a powder bed additive manufacturing process" was invented by Hongqing Sun (Rexford, N.Y.), Jinjie Shi (Mason, Ohio) and Andrew Ezekiel Wessman (Walton, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tooling assembly for mounting a plurality of components, such as compressor blades, in a powder bed additive manufacturing machine to facilitate a repair process is provided. The tooling assembly includes component fixtures configured for receiving each of the compressor blades, a mounting plate for receiving the component f...