US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Oct. 20 for "Characterisation of a bed of metal powder by colorimetry" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,600, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Characterisation of a bed of metal powder by colorimetry" was invented by Timothee Delacroix (Villepreux, France), Jean-Paul Garandet (Saint Cloud, France), Hicham Maskrot (Monthlery, France), Frederic Schuster (St Germain en Laye, France) and Fernando Lomello (Gif-sur-Yvette, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining an oxygen concentration of a powder of a metallic material taking the form of a powder bed, the method includes steps consisting in: A) producing an image of at least a part of the powder...