US Patent Issued to General Electric on Dec. 23 for "Automated de-powdering of additive manufacturing build" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,835, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Automated de-powdering of additive manufacturing build" was invented by Carlos H. Bonilla (Lebanon, Ohio), Timothy Francis Andrews (Cincinnati), Jack Anthony Otte (West Chester, Ohio), Talon Parker (Middletown, Ohio) and Tyler Nicodemus (Blue Ash, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated de-powdering system comprises a sleeve alignable with at least a portion of a build chamber and at least one actuator actuatable with respect to a build plate to move at least a portion of an additive manufacturing build out of the build chamber and into the sleev...