US Patent Issued to AP&C Advanced Powders & Coatings on April 14 for "System and method for treating additive powder" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,962, issued on April 14, was assigned to AP&C Advanced Powders & Coatings Inc. (Boisbriand, Canada).

"System and method for treating additive powder" was invented by Frederic Larouche (Saint-Colomban, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for treating additive powder is provided. The method may include positioning the additive powder within a reactor chamber defined by the reactor; evacuating residual gases from the reactor chamber; increasing a reactor content temperature within the reactor chamber to a target temperature; agitating the additive powder; and injecting a gas mixture into the reactor chamber. The g...