ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,765, issued on April 21, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).
"Powder material" was invented by Pajazit Avdovic (Norrkoping, Sweden), Jonas Eriksson (Finspong, Sweden) and Jerry Fornander (Finspang, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder material for additive manufacturing providing an improved microstructure and shape of a product including particles, wherein at most 25 wt.-% of the particles provide a particle size differing more than 20% from the D50 based on the value of the D50. A method of additive manufacturing includes the step of manufacturing a product from this powder material or repairing...