ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,563, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Apparatus, systems, and methods for monitoring, analyzing, and adjusting additive machine and build health and configuration" was invented by Megha Navalgund (Bengaluru, India), Adam J. McCann (West Chester, Ohio), Thomas D. Citriniti (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Kirk Lars Bruns (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Saravana Kumar S (Bengaluru, India), Hiroyuki Tanaka (Bavaria, Germany), Venkata Dharma Surya Narayana Sastry Rachakonda (Bengaluru, India), V S S Srivatsa Ponnada (Bengaluru, India), Par Arumskog (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Simon Blome (Molnlycke, Sweden).

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