B22F 10/40
Structures for supporting workpieces or articles during manufacture and removed afterwards
B22F10/40 (Structures for supporting workpieces or articles during manufacture and removed afterwards) appears on 727 US grants and 1,155 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B22F- Granted patents
- 727
- Published applications
- 1,155
- Assignees
- 369
- Inventors
- 1,730
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 87 | 97 |
| 2025 | 72 | 52 |
| 2026 | 25 | 32 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Exhaust system for support removal apparatus22 Sep 2026US 12,741,319 B2PostProcess Technologies, Inc.
- Interfacial and support structures for inorganic material printing and methods thereof22 Sep 2026US 12,741,419 B2Xerox Corporation
- Organic formulations for additive manufacturing of three-dimensional objects containing sinterable materials25 Aug 2026US 12,715,036 B2Tritone Technologies Ltd.
- Variable print chamber walls for powder bed fusion additive manufacturing11 Aug 2026US 12,703,145 B2Seurat Technologies, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for additive manufacturing of a workpiece4 Aug 2026US 12,697,660 B2Pro-Beam AG & Co. KGAA
- Support structures used in metal additive manufacturing and method of manufacturing metal additive manufactured products24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284749 A1Hanwha Aerospace Co., Ltd.
- 3d printing system utilizing a multi-material printing unit24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284750 A1studio 3e8, Inc.
- Implantable objects fabricated by additive manufacturing and methods of fabricating the same17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273626 A1Flex Memory Ventures Pty Ltd
- Methods of crack mitigation for high-strength aluminum alloys made by additive manufacturing and high-strenth aluminum alloys made therefrom13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233310 A1Purdue Research Foundation
- Production method of three-dimensional object6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225158 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fabricating multi-part assemblies597US 9,815,118 B1Desktop Metal, Inc. · 2017
- Method for supporting an object made by means of stereolithography or another rapid prototype production method383US 5,595,703 AMaterialise, Naamloze Vennootschap · 1997
- Laminated object manufacturing apparatus and method364US 5,876,550 AHelisys, Inc. · 1999
- Apparatus and method for forming an integral object from laminations283US 5,354,414 A1994
- Free form fabrication of metallic components265US 5,745,834 ARockwell International Corporation · 1998