US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on Feb. 10 for "Porous metal coupon with braze material infiltration barrier for repairing component, component with same and related method" (South Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,845, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Porous metal coupon with braze material infiltration barrier for repairing component, component with same and related method" was invented by Stanley Frank Simpson (Greenville, S.C.), Jacob Andrew Salm (Simpsonville, S.C.), James Warren Pemrick (Troy, N.Y.), Mark Lawrence Hunt (Greenville, S.C.) and Nathan Nicholas Ostrout (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal coupon for repairing a component includes an additively manufactured (AM) metal member having at least two porous regions and a braze material infiltration barrier p...