ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,650, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Additive manufacturing methods and systems" was invented by Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov (Ballston Lake, N.Y.), Christopher Darby Immer (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Thomas Charles Adcock (Glenville, N.Y.), Justin John Gambone (Schenectady, N.Y.), Daniel Jason Erno (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Brian Scott McCarthy (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and John Joseph Madelone Jr. (South Glen Falls, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of additively manufacturing a three-dimensional object include irradiating a first build plane region using a first energy beam defining a beam diame...