US Patent Issued to RTX on Dec. 2 for "Uncertainty quantification or predictive defect model for multi-laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing" (Connecticut, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,489, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Uncertainty quantification or predictive defect model for multi-laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing" was invented by Masoud Anahid (Galena, Ohio), Matthew E. Lynch (Canton, Conn.), Malcolm P. MacDonald (Bloomfield, Conn.), Ranadip Acharya (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Brian A. Fisher (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for uncertainty quantification for a predictive defect model for multi-laser additive manufacturing of a part including executing computational fluid dynamics modeling of a gas flow in an additive manufacturing machin...