US Patent Issued to HRL Laboratories on April 22 for "Additive manufacturing with nanofunctionalized precursors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,432, issued on April 22, was assigned to HRL Laboratories LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"Additive manufacturing with nanofunctionalized precursors" was invented by John H. Martin (Oxnard, Calif.), Brennan Yahata (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Tobias A. Schaedler (Oak Park, Calif.) and Jacob M. Hundley (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some variations provide a process for additive manufacturing of a nanofunctionalized metal alloy, comprising: providing a nanofunctionalized metal precursor containing metals and grain-refining nanoparticles; exposing a first amount of the nanofunctionalized metal precursor to an energy source for ...