US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 11 for "Flow directing system and method for additive manufacturing system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,489, issued on March 11, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Flow directing system and method for additive manufacturing system" was invented by Christian Thomas Wakelam (Munich) and Rene du Cauze de Nazelle (Garching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing (AM) system includes a housing defining a chamber, a build platform disposed within the chamber, and an upper gas inlet configured to supply an upper gas flow in a first direction parallel to the build platform. The AM system includes a lower gas inlet disposed in the chamber and configured to supply a lower gas flow in a second direc...