ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,558, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Bayern, Germany).
"Support structure" was invented by Gustav Ekstrom (Kimstad, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supported product manufactured using additive manufacturing, wherein the supported product provides a simplified post processing. The supported product contains a product and a support structure, wherein the supported product has been manufactured using additive manufacturing as a whole, wherein the support structure is adapted to be removed to provide the product, wherein the support structure provides an interface adapted to interact with ...