US Patent Issued to Ansys on April 21 for "Determination of heat source absorptivity and penetration depth in additive manufacturing melt pools" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,514, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ansys Inc. (Canonsburg, Pa.).

"Determination of heat source absorptivity and penetration depth in additive manufacturing melt pools" was invented by Zack Francis (Pittsburgh), Chong Teng (Shandong, China) and Hai Dong (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented systems and methods are described herein for determining additive manufacturing parameters in a simulation. Input data regarding a product to be generated via additive manufacturing and a beam diameter are received. Based on the input data, a characteristic dimension is determined. The beam diameter is normaliz...