US Patent Issued to General Electric on Jan. 13 for "Reclamation system for additive manufacturing" (Ohio, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,942, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Reclamation system for additive manufacturing" was invented by Meredith Elissa Dubelman (Liberty Township, Ohio), Christopher David Barnhill (Cincinnati), Xi Yang (Mason, Ohio), William Joseph Steele (Lawrenceburg, Ind.) and Brian Thomas Thompson (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing apparatus can include a stage configured to hold one or more cured layers of resin that form a component. A radiant energy device can be operable to generate and project radiant energy in a patterned image. An actuator can be configured to c...