ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,377, issued on May 13, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"System and method for casting with mold having thermally tailored wall" was invented by Jared Micheal Iverson (Amalga, Utah), Shenyan Huang (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Christopher Raymond Hanslits (Union, S.C.) and Canan Uslu Hardwicke (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided with a controller configured to receive a computer model of a mold configured to cast a part. The computer model has a variable wall thickness of the mold thermally tailored to a geometry of the part. The controller is configured to control a manufact...