US Patent Issued to Plansee on Nov. 18 for "Additively-manufactured refractory metal component, additive manufacturing process, and powder" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,578, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Plansee SE (Reutte, Austria).

"Additively-manufactured refractory metal component, additive manufacturing process, and powder" was invented by Karl-Heinz Leitz (Reutte, Austria), Heinrich Kestler (Reutte, Austria), Peter Singer (Reutte, Austria), Gerhard Leichtfried (Innsbruck, Austria), Jakob Braun (Innsbruck, Austria), Lukas Kaserer (Innsbruck, Austria) and Janko Stajkovic (Innsbruck, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component has a matrix phase composed of at least one material selected from the group molybdenum, a molybdenum-based alloy, tungsten, a tungsten-based alloy and a molybd...