US Patent Issued to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES on June 23 for "Method for the additive manufacture of a turbomachine component" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,712, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).

"Method for the additive manufacture of a turbomachine component" was invented by Terence Grall (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Sebastien Yohann Pouzet (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Herve Antoine Frederic Seince (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Ronan Mauvoisin (Lassy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a component, in particular a turbomachine component, in the form of a plurality of superposed layers of a material, includes a step of supplying the material into a feed nozzle and a step of projecting energy towards the feed nozzle to cause the...