ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,596, issued on April 22, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Cleaning systems for additive manufacturing apparatuses and methods for using the same" was invented by Timothy Francis Andrews (Sharonville, Ohio), Carlos H. Bonilla (Lebanon, Ohio), Vadim Bromberg (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Victor Fulton (Amelia, Ohio), Tyler Andrew Griffith (Norwood, Ohio), Younkoo Jeong (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Jacob Mayer (Cincinnati), John Sterle (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Stephen M. Deak (Liberty Township, Ohio), Justin Gandee (Oregonia, Ohio), Tyler Hater (Milford, Ohio), Grant Alan Ingram (West Chester, Ohio) and Peter Douglas Lueschen (Covington, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by...