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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023

Filed:

May. 29, 2019
Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventors:

Jaydeep Karandikar, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Bathrinarayanan Mukundan, Bengaluru, IN;

Arvind Rangarajan, San Ramon, CA (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 64/10 (2017.01); B33Y 30/00 (2015.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01); B29C 65/00 (2006.01); B29C 41/52 (2006.01); B29C 37/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 66/87 (2013.01); B29C 37/0096 (2013.01); B29C 41/52 (2013.01); B29C 64/10 (2017.08); B29C 66/005 (2013.01); B29C 2037/80 (2013.01); B29C 2037/903 (2013.01); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 30/00 (2014.12);
Abstract

A method, medium, and system to receive an indication of an assembly including a plurality of different components to produce by additive manufacturing (AM), determine based on a forward search process that starts with individual components of the plurality of components and iteratively adds other components of the plurality of components thereto in combinations until an entirety of the assembly is accounted for, determine based on a reverse search process that starts with the entirety of the assembly and iteratively removes components of the plurality of components therefrom in combinations until a two-component set is reached, automatically select an optimal combination of the plurality of components from the combinations determined by the forward search and reverse search processes; and transmit the selection of the optimal combination of the plurality of components to an AM controller.


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