ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,441, issued on May 27, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France), CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES (Paris), UNIVERSITE PAUL SABATIER TOULUSE III (Toulouse, France) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).
"Method for manufacturing a multi-material part by additive manufacturing, using the technique of powder bed selective laser melting or selective laser sintering" was invented by Frederic Veron (Toulouse, France), Olivier Vendier (Toulouse, France), Philippe Tailhades (Saint-Orens, France), Valerie Baco-Carles (Labarthe sur Leze, France) and Kateryna Kiryukhina (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...