US Patent Issued to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes George Claude on July 21 for "Device and method for producing metal powders" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,054, issued on July 21, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes George Claude (Paris).

"Device and method for producing metal powders" was invented by Sebastien Doublet (Jouy-en-Josas, France), Eric Verna (Jouy-en-Josas, France) and Olivier Debellemaniere (Jouy-en-Josas, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing powder from a first and a second materials for use in additive manufacturing, the manufacturing process including melting the first and second materials by an electric arc; spraying the melted materials so as to form droplets; cooling the droplets by a ca...