ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,151, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS) (Paris), ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE MECANIQUE ET D'AEROTECHNIQUE DE POITIERS (Chasseneuil du Poitou, France) and UNIVERSITE DE POITIERS (Poitiers, France).
"Method for manufacturing a part made of a monocrystalline superalloy" was invented by Satoshi Utada (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Joel Delautre (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Sarah Hamadi (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Jonathan Cormier (Chasseneuil du Poitou, France), Patrick Villechaise (Vouneuil sous Biard, France) and Jeremy Rame (Moissy-Cramayel, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Pate...