US Patent Issued to General Electric on Feb. 17 for "Binder solutions comprising a fugitive metal precursor for use in additive manufacturing" (Ohio, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,947, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Binder solutions comprising a fugitive metal precursor for use in additive manufacturing" was invented by Arunkumar Natarajan (Mason, Ohio), Kwok Pong Chan (Niskayuna, N.Y.), William C. Alberts (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.), Xi Yang (Mason, Ohio) and Mary Kathryn Thompson (Fairfield, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A binder solution comprises a fugitive metal precursor, a thermoplastic binder, and a solvent. The fugitive metal precursor may comprise an alkaline earth metal, a transition metal, a post-transition metal, a metalloid, a rare earth metal, or co...