ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,241, issued on March 24, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Methods and apparatus for sensor-assisted part development in additive manufacturing" was invented by Subhrajit Roychowdhury (Cohoes, N.Y.), Naresh S. Iyer (Ballston Spa, N.Y.), Sanghee Cho (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Rogier Sebastiaan Blom (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Brent Brunell (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Xiaohu Ping (Halfmoon, N.Y.) and Sharath Aramanekoppa (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for sensor-based part development are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor...