US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 17 for "Print and recoat assemblies for additive manufacturing systems and methods for using the same" (New York, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,589, issued on March 17, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Print and recoat assemblies for additive manufacturing systems and methods for using the same" was invented by John Sterle (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Vadim Bromberg (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Carlos H. Bonilla (Lebanon, Ohio) and Tyler Andrew Griffith (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming an object includes moving an assembly including an energy source, heating an initial layer of build material (31i, 31s, 31, 3, 50) positioned in a build area via forced convection around the energy source of the assembly, and spreading build materi...