US Patent Issued to Norsk Titanium AS on Feb. 3 for "Distortion mitigation in directed energy deposition" (American, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,542, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Norsk Titanium AS (Honefoss, Norway).

"Distortion mitigation in directed energy deposition" was invented by Pedro Almeida (Asker, Norway), Dale Grigorenko (Moorhead, Minn.) and Steven Rondeau (Au Sable Forks, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a mount system and systems and methods using the mount system for manufacturing objects, especially titanium and titanium alloy objects, by directed energy deposition. The methods include thermally pre-bending the substrate onto which the object is to be manufactured to form a pre-bent substrate, attaching the pre-bent substrate to a jig using...