ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,068, issued on June 10, was assigned to ADDUP (Cebazat, France).

"Method for the additive manufacture of a component fully or partially made up of a three-dimensional lattice" was invented by Didier Pezet (Cebazat, France) and Sebastien Devroe (Cebazat, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a part made up entirely or partially of at least one three-dimensional lattice is disclosed. The three-dimensional lattice is produced by additive manufacturing by successive depositions of different layers of additive manufacturing powder and selective consolidation of the layers of powder along at least one path compri...