US Patent Issued to General Electric on Feb. 18 for "Method and apparatus for layer thickness control in additive manufacturing" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,960, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Method and apparatus for layer thickness control in additive manufacturing" was invented by Meredith Elissa Dubelman (Liberty Township, Ohio), Mary Kathryn Thompson (Hamilton, Ohio), Christopher Barnhill (Cincinnati) and Xi Yang (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a build surface, at least a portion of which is transparent. The apparatus includes a first material depositor operable to deposit a curable resin to form a deposited resin layer on the build surface. A first sensin...