US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 24 for "Compensating laser alignment for irregularities in an additive manufacturing machine powderbed" (New York, South Carolina, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,529, issued on June 24, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Compensating laser alignment for irregularities in an additive manufacturing machine powderbed" was invented by Brian Scott McCarthy (Schenectady, N.Y.), Dean Andrew Snelling Jr. (Statesboro, Ga.), Thomas Adcock (Glenville, N.Y.), Donnell Crear (Simpsonville, S.C.) and Michael Evans Graham (Slingerlands, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for additive manufacturing machine energy beam alignment error compensation includes, a calibration table having x-y planar offsets to correct laser alignment errors representing energy beam positional offse...