US Patent Issued to RTX on April 14 for "Powder bed fusion build plate thermal history indicator" (Connecticut, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,969, issued on April 14, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Powder bed fusion build plate thermal history indicator" was invented by Lawrence A. Binek (Glastonbury, Conn.), Joseph E. Ott (Enfield, Conn.), Benjamin G. Gardell (Bristol, Conn.), Dean R. Sirois (Enfield, Conn.), Alexandru Cadar (Eastford, Conn.), Jesse R. Boyer (Middletown, Conn.) and Michael Walter Bennett (East Hartford, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder bed fusion (PBF) additive manufacturing (AM) machine includes a build plate configured to function as a platform to support one or more parts built using the PBF AM machine. The build plate fur...