US Patent Issued to General Electric on Jan. 27 for "Additive manufacturing apparatuses with removable build boxes and build box management systems" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,848, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Additive manufacturing apparatuses with removable build boxes and build box management systems" was invented by Jacob Mayer (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for forming a three-dimensional article having successive layers of a powder material, which layers correspond to successive cross-sections of the three-dimensional article includes a process chamber comprising a process chamber floor and a build box management system. The build box management system includes an intake conveyor that receives a build box and an elevated conveyor ...