ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,067, issued on June 10, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method for manufacturing an aluminium alloy part by additive manufacturing from a powder mixture containing ZrSi 2 particles" was invented by Mathieu Opprecht (Grenoble, France), Jean-Paul Garandet (Grenoble, France) and Guilhem Roux (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for manufacturing an aluminium alloy part by additive manufacturing that includes a step in which a layer of a mixture of powders is locally melted then solidified, wherein the mixture of powders includes: first particles that include at ...