ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,001, issued on June 3, was assigned to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).
"Methods of additively manufacturing tower structures with coiled polymer reinforcement members" was invented by James Robert Tobin (Greenville, S.C.), Xiaopeng Li (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Ryan Eric Vogel (Greer, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a tower structure includes printing and depositing, via a printhead assembly of an additive printing system, one or more printed layers of a wall of the tower structure. The method also includes unwinding at least one continuous roll of a reinforcement material to form ...