US Patent Issued to RTX on May 12 for "Predictive defect model for highly productive laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,288, issued on May 12, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Predictive defect model for highly productive laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing" was invented by Parisa Farahmand (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Masoud Anahid (Galena, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to a method for modeling additive manufacturing of a part, including a number of steps. The steps include constructing a model for estimating output of a simulated additive manufacturing process, followed by entering process operating parameters for an additive manufacturing system into the model to produce an output. The output is...