ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,605, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Additive manufacturing apparatuses and methods" was invented by Vadim Bromberg (Niskayuna, N.Y.), John Sterle (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Victor Fulton (Amelia, Ohio), Tyler Andrew Griffith (Norwood, Ohio), Peter Douglas Lueschen (Covington, Ky.), Carlos H. Bonilla (Lebanon, Ohio), Joseph L. Smolenski (Singerlands, N.Y.), Timothy Francis Andrews (Sharonville, Ohio), Younkoo Jeong (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Jacob Mayer (Cincinnati), Kwok Pong Chan (Nisayuna, N.Y.), Mary Kathryn Thompson (Fairfield Township, Ohio) and Ruben E. Fairman (Forest Park, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trad...