US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 21 for "Systems and methods for additive manufacturing using pixel shifting" (Ohio, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,167, issued on July 21, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for additive manufacturing using pixel shifting" was invented by Mary Kathryn Thompson (Fairfield Township, Ohio), Travis Gene Sands (Lebanon, Ohio), Kevin Robert Dickson (Dayton, Ohio), William Joseph Steele (Lawrenceburg, Ind.) and Trent William Muhlenkamp (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing apparatus includes a support plate defining a window and a resin support configured to support an uncured layer of resin. A stage is configured to hold one or more cured layers of the resin to form a component pos...