US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Sept. 8 for "Anomaly detection in additive manufacturing using meltpool monitoring, and related devices and systems" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,459, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Anomaly detection in additive manufacturing using meltpool monitoring, and related devices and systems" was invented by Gunaranjan Chaudhry (Bangalore, India), Jayesh Rameshlal Jain (The Woodlands, Texas), Thomas Dobrowolski (The Woodlands, Texas), Chad Yates (Houston) and Aaron Avagliano (Tomball, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for anomaly detection in additive manufacture using meltpool monitoring are disclosed. A method includes obtaining a process model representative of an object to be generated through additive manufacture. Th...