US Patent Issued to General Electric on Oct. 7 for "Accumalator assembly for additive manufacturing" (Ohio, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,436, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Accumalator assembly for additive manufacturing" was invented by Mary Kathryn Thompson (Fairfield Township, Ohio), Meredith Elissa Dubelman (Liberty Township, Ohio), Christopher David Barnhill (Cincinnati), Xi Yang (Mason, Ohio), Trent William Muhlenkamp (Cincinnati) and William Joseph Steele (Lawrenceburg, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing apparatus includes a feed module and a take-up module that are configured to operably couple with a foil. A stage is configured to hold one or more cured layers of a resin that form a componen...