ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,661, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Multiple additive manufacturing technique material deposition" was invented by Lawrence Binek (Glastonbury, Conn.), Jesse Boyer (Middletown, Conn.) and Joseph Ott (Enfield, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a metallic component includes mounting a polymeric scaffold onto a mandrel, wherein the mandrel includes one or more chucks configured to secure the polymeric scaffold onto the mandrel and wherein the mandrel is configured to rotate the polymeric scaffold; depositing, with a second additive manufacturing (AM) technique using a material appl...