US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 28 for "Additive manufacturing systems and methods including build characteristic contribution profiles" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,496, issued on July 28, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Additive manufacturing systems and methods including build characteristic contribution profiles" was invented by Brian Scott McCarthy (Schenectady, N.Y.), Aymeric Moinet (Schenectady, N.Y.), Rajesh Kartik Bollapragada (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Tyler Nathaniel Nelson (Schenectady, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing system includes a control system communicatively coupled to a consolidation device and configured to control operation of the consolidation device. The control system is configured to generate a model of a component includ...