US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 31 for "Systems and methods for additive manufacturing" (Ohio, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,549, issued on March 31, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for additive manufacturing" was invented by William Joseph Steele (Lawrenceburg, Ind.), Christopher David Barnhill (Cincinnati), Brian Thomas Thompson (Loveland, Ohio), Meredith Elissa Dubelman (Liberty Township, Ohio) and Xi Yang (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing apparatus includes a support plate defining a window and a resin support configured to support an uncured layer of resin. A stage is configured to hold one or more cured layers of the resin to form a component positioned opposite a suppor...