ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,036, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Incus GmbH (Vienna).

"Method and apparatus for additive manufacturing of a component" was invented by Gerald Mitteramskogler (Vienna) and Christian Veigl (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for additive manufacturing of at least one metallic or ceramic component, before at least one green part is built up layer by layer in a printing device, a support layer is applied to a surface of a printing support having recesses, so that the green part is built up layer by layer on the support layer, whereupon the green part lying on the printing support is removed from the printing device an...