ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,706, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to C-TEC Constellium Technology Center (Voreppe, France).
"Process 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: "The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a part, involving forming consecutive solid metal layers (201.. 20n) that are stacked on top of one another, each layer describing a pattern defined on the basis of a numerical model {M), each layer being formed by depositing a metal (25), referred to as filling metal, the filling metal being subjected to an input of energy so as to melt and constitute said lay...