ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,463, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to C-TEC CONSTELLIUM TECHNOLOGY CENTER (Voreppe, France).
"Method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy part" was invented by Bechir Chehab (Voiron, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a part 20 including a formation of successive metallic layers (201.. 20n), superimposed on one another, each layer being formed by the deposition of a filler metal (15, 25), the filler metal being subjected to an energy input so as to melt and constitute, when solidifying, said layer, the method being characterized in that the filler metal (15, 25) is an aluminum alloy including the followin...