US Patent Issued to General Electric on Feb. 17 for "Temperature control system for additive manufacturing and method for same" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,972, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Temperature control system for additive manufacturing and method for same" was invented by Yong Wu (Shanghai), Hai Chang (Shanghai), Yifeng Wang (Shanghai), Zirong Zhai (Shanghai), Dalong Zhong (Shanghai), Yingna Wu (Shanghai) and Yimin Zhan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature control method for additive manufacturing includes directing an energy beam of a first energy source toward a material and fusing at least a portion of the material to form a cladding layer, forging the cladding layer with a micro-forging device, and detecting a f...