ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,033, issued on May 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Additive manufacturing system and method of manufacture" was invented by Steven W. Burd (Cheshire, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing method includes segmenting a CAD file of a component along a build interface to define at least a first component segment and a second component segment, each of the first component segment and the second component segment sized to fit within an additive manufacturing build chamber; additive manufacturing the first component segment and the second component segment within the build chamber; and bonding th...