US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on June 10 for "Additively manufactured component having a support structure and method for manufacturing a component of this type" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,069, issued on June 10, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Bayern, Germany).

"Additively manufactured component having a support structure and method for manufacturing a component of this type" was invented by Vinzenz Muller (Berlin), Ole Geisen (Berlin), Michael Hajduk (Berlin) and Timo Heitmann (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component which was manufactured in a powder-bed production process, proceeding from a base plane. The component includes a finished part and a support structure. The finished part can be divided into an easy portion, which can be manufactured from the base plane without a support st...