US Patent Issued to General Electric on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for additive manufacturing" (Ohio, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,604, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing apparatus includes a resin support configured to support a first resin and a second resin. A support plate includes a window. A stage is configured to hold one or more cured layers of the re...