US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 23 for "Material supply systems for additive manufacturing and methods for using the same" (New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,851, issued on June 23, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Material supply systems for additive manufacturing and methods for using the same" was invented by Carlos H. Bonilla (Lebanon, Ohio), Gregory Kurt Miller (Houston, Pa.), John Sterle (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Vadim Bromberg (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing build material to an additive manufacturing system (100) includes moving the build material (10) from a dosing hopper (240) to an interior space defined by one or more supply sidewalls of a supply receptacle (110) and a piston (130) positioned within the supply recept...