US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 29 for "Material deposition assembly for additive manufacturing" (Ohio, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,741, issued on July 29, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Material deposition assembly for additive manufacturing" was invented by Meredith Elissa Dubelman (Liberty Township, Ohio), Christopher David Barnhill (Cincinnati), William Joseph Steele (Lawrenceburg, Ind.) and Xi Yang (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing apparatus includes a stage configured to hold a component. A radiant energy is device operable to generate and project radiant energy in a patterned image. An actuator is configured to change a position of the stage relative to the radiant energy device. A deposition ass...