US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 16 for "Additive manufacturing apparatuses with removable build boxes and lid management systems" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,227, issued on June 16, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Additive manufacturing apparatuses with removable build boxes and lid management systems" was invented by Jacob Mayer (Cincinnati), Victor Fulton (West Chester, Ohio) and Carlos H. Bonilla (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for forming a three-dimensional article having successive layers of a powder material, which layers correspond to successive cross-sections of the three-dimensional article includes a process chamber that includes a process chamber floor having an opening therethrough, the opening defining a part processing...