US Patent Issued to General Electric on Sept. 15 for "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for three-dimensional, in-situ inspection of an additively manufactured component" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,483, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Apparatuses, systems, and methods for three-dimensional, in-situ inspection of an additively manufactured component" was invented by Mohamed Rahmane (Ballston Lake, N.Y.), Andrey I. Meshkov (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Vladimir A. Lobastov (Waterford, N.Y.) and William R. Ross (Kinderhook, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to an additive manufacturing system configured to generate an electron beam directed toward a target to generate x-ray flux. The x-ray flux is directed toward the component through at least one plate with a ...