US Patent Issued to HRL Laboratories on June 24 for "Feedstocks for additive manufacturing, and methods of using the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,512, issued on June 24, was assigned to HRL Laboratories LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"Feedstocks for additive manufacturing, and methods of using the same" was invented by John H. Martin (Oxnard, Calif.) and Brennan D. Yahata (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some variations provide a method of making an additively manufactured metal component, comprising: providing a feedstock that includes a high-vapor-pressure metal; exposing a first amount of the feedstock to an energy source for melting; and solidifying the melt layer, thereby generating a solid layer of an additively manufactured metal component. The metal-contain...