US Patent Issued to General Electric on Dec. 2 for "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing enhanced recoater event prediction for DMLM additive manufacturing" (Maine Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,488, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing enhanced recoater event prediction for DMLM additive manufacturing" was invented by Tyler N. Nelson (Skowhegan, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving data associated with a part to be built by additive manufacturing using a recoater, predicting a distortion amount comprising a distance that the part is expected to distort in a vertical direction at one or more layers while the part is being built based on a simulation of the part being built, determining a likelihood of a recoater...