US Patent Issued to EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems on July 29 for "Nickel base superalloy for additive manufacturing" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,761, issued on July 29, was assigned to EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems (Krailling, Germany).

"Nickel base superalloy for additive manufacturing" was invented by Kevin Minet-Lallemand (Turku, Finland), Ilkka Miettunen (Turku, Finland), Ville Niemelae (Turku, Finland), Kristiina Kupi (Turku, Finland) and Abdul Shaafi Shaikh (Turku, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nickel alloys in powder form comprising at least 40 wt.-% Ni, about 20.0 to 25.0 wt.-% Cr, about 5.0 to 25.0 wt.-% Co and about 1.5 to 5.0 wt.-% Ti, which have a content of B in an amount of less than 40 ppmw, are disclosed. Corresponding alloys have the advantage of ...