ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,150, issued on June 2, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS (Jiangsu, China).
"Method for manufacturing non-support laser additive material applied to overhanging structure in metal material" was invented by Dongdong Gu (Jiangsu, China), Xin Liu (Jiangsu, China), Wenxin Chen (Jiangsu, China) and Jianfeng Sun (Jiangsu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a non-support laser additive material applied to a difficult-to-machine overhanging structure in an easily-deformed metal material, forming a metal non-supported overhanging structure by adopting a laser powder melting the metal...