US Patent Issued to General Electric on Sept. 23 for "Energy beam systems for additive manufacturing machines" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,482, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Energy beam systems for additive manufacturing machines" was invented by Srikanth Reddy Tenkayyagaari (Bangalore, India), Sharath Sridhar Aramanekoppa (Bangalore, India), Megha Navalgund (Bangalore, India) and Steven T. Slusher (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing system may include an additive manufacturing machine and a control system. The additive manufacturing machine may include one or more irradiation devices respectively including a beam source configured to emit an energy beam, an optical assembly that ...