ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,685, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"System and method of additively manufacturing a component with multiple processing strategies" was invented by Eliezer Manuel Alcantara Marte (Liberty Township, Ohio) and Stefka Petkova (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided that enable a component to be additively manufactured in a single build with multiple processing strategies. In one example aspect, a model representing a component is decomposed into submodels that each correspond to a subcomponent of the component. Each o...