US Patent Issued to AM 4 AM S.A R.L. on Dec. 30 for "Functionalized metal powders by small particles made by non-thermal plasma glow discharge for additive manufacturing applications" (Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,568, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AM 4 AM S.A R.L. (Foetz, Luxembourg).

"Functionalized metal powders by small particles made by non-thermal plasma glow discharge for additive manufacturing applications" was invented by Maxime Delmee (Arion, Belgium) and Gregory Mertz (Audun-le-Tiche, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a non-thermal plasma treatment of metal powders in order to improve their processability by additive manufacturing (AM). The invention consists in bonding primary particles constituted of metals or metal alloys to a plurality of secondary particles constituted of metals, metal a...