US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 8 for "System and method for additively manufacturing an object" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,458, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"System and method for additively manufacturing an object" was invented by Elaine MacDonald (Wildwood, Mo.), Russell W. Cochran (Maryland Hts., Mo.) and Daniel J. Braley (O'Fallon, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of additively manufacturing an object includes successively forming a plurality of powder layers by depositing powder over a build platform using a powder-deposition apparatus. The method also includes successively forming a binder shell by bonding select regions of each one of the plurality of powder layers before forming each successive on...