US Patent Issued to RTX on March 3 for "Method for rapid characterization of metallic powders" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,138, issued on March 3, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Method for rapid characterization of metallic powders" was invented by David U. Furrer (Marlborough, Conn.), Iuliana Cernatescu (Glastonbury, Conn.), Marcel Lucas (Manchester, Conn.) and Sergei F. Burlatsky (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for characterization of metallic powder including presenting a metallic powder sample to a laser and detector system, wherein the metallic powder sample passes through the laser and detector system via a sample introducer; applying a pulsed laser beam to a first location in the metallic powder sampl...