US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 18 for "Method and systems for composite molding" (Michigan, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,858, issued on March 18, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method and systems for composite molding" was invented by Gary Latham (South Lyon, Mich.), Jeffrey G. Price (Huntersville, N.C.), Andrew Thomas Cunningham (Royal Oak, Mich.), Thomas Curtis (Royal Oak, Mich.), Adam Golembeski (Charlotte, N.C.) and Patrick J Eding (Fremont, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for composite molding, and the method includes additively manufacturing a mold shell that includes a part forming cavity. The method includes filling at least a portion of the mold shell with a strengthening agent. The me...