US Patent Issued to Hypertherm on April 21 for "Method and apparatus for monitoring particle laden pneumatic abrasive flow in an abrasive fluid jet cutting system" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,803, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hypertherm Inc. (Hanover, N.H.).

"Method and apparatus for monitoring particle laden pneumatic abrasive flow in an abrasive fluid jet cutting system" was invented by Shijin Zhang (Chongqing, China), Scott Veenhuizen (Covington, Wash.) and Axel Henning (Black Diamond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An abrasive jet cutting system may include a differential pressure measurement apparatus configured to measure a differential pressure between points in an abrasive supply system. The differential pressure may be used to determine one or more conditions of the jet and the abrasive delivery. Th...