US Patent Issued to General Electric on Jan. 20 for "Powder removal apparatuses for additive manufacturing apparatuses" (Ohio, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,249, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Powder removal apparatuses for additive manufacturing apparatuses" was invented by Hojjat Nasr (West Chester, Ohio), Jinjie Shi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Christopher Michael Bryant (Harrison, Ohio), Jay Matthew Lang (Martins Ferry, Ohio), Valeria Stoughton (Blue Ash, Ohio) and Glen Charles Fedyk (Fairfield, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder removal apparatus includes an extraction housing comprising a sidewall that is sized and configured to extend around a powder bed of a build module and a top wall that is sized and configured to extend betw...