ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,782, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to C-TEC Constellium Technology Center (Voreppe, France).
"Process for manufacturing an aluminum alloy part" was invented by Bechir Chehab (Voiron, France), Jochen Altenberend (Grenoble, France) and Ravi Shahani (Voreppe, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process for manufacturing a part (20) including a formation of successive metal layers (201.. 20n), which are superimposed on each other, each layer being formed by depositing a filler metal (15, 25), the filler metal being subjected to a supply of energy so as to become molten and to constitute, upon solidifying, said layer, the process bein...