US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on April 1 for "System and method for manufacturing a tower structure" (New York, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,490, issued on April 1, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"System and method for manufacturing a tower structure" was invented by Norman Arnold Turnquist (Carlisle, N.Y.), Biao Fang (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Pascal Meyer (Burnt Hills, N.Y.), Gregory Edward Cooper (Greenfield Center, N.Y.) and Collin McKee Sheppard (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a tower structure, the method including printing and depositing, with at least one variable-width deposition nozzle of a printhead assembly, one or more layers of at least one wall element of the tower structure, the a...