US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy on April 29 for "Liquid assisted additive manufacturing of a superalloy component" (North Carolina, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,691, issued on April 29, was assigned to Siemens Energy Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Liquid assisted additive manufacturing of a superalloy component" was invented by Kazim Ozbaysal (Charlotte, N.C.) and Ahmed Kamel (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that facilitates additive manufacturing a superalloy component using a liquid assisted additive manufacturing process. The method includes successively depositing and fusing together layers of a superalloy powder mixture comprising a high melt superalloy powder and a low melt superalloy powder to build up an additive portion of the superalloy component. The metho...