US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on March 11 for "Method for manufacturing an aluminium alloy part by additive manufacturing and aluminium alloy part obtained according to the method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,379, issued on March 11, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method for manufacturing an aluminium alloy part by additive manufacturing and aluminium alloy part obtained according to the method" was invented by Mathieu Opprecht (Grenoble, France), Jean-Paul Garandet (Grenoble, France), Fernando Lomello (Grenoble, France), Guilhem Roux (Grenoble, France) and Mathieu Soulier (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an aluminium alloy part by additive manufacturing comprising a step during which a layer of a mixture of powders is melted locally and ...