US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 26 for "Apparatuses, methods, and products for cold spray additive manufacturing of multi curved and reinforced components" (Alabama, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,493, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Apparatuses, methods, and products for cold spray additive manufacturing of multi curved and reinforced components" was invented by Bruno Zamorano Senderos (Huntsville, Ala.), Dennis Lynn Coad (Madison, Ala.) and Kenneth W. Young (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations provide cold spray additive manufacturing ("CSAM")-based fabrication of a complex multi curvature part ("CMCP") by cold spraying onto a mold. Implementations achieve the desired shape and dimensions of a CMCP having variable surface thicknesses and utilize reinforcements integrate...