US Patent Issued to RTX on May 26 for "Quality metric for predictive defect model for multi-laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing" (Connecticut, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,838, issued on May 26, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Quality metric for predictive defect model for multi-laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing" was invented by Masoud Anahid (Galena, Ohio), Matthew E. Lynch (Canton, Conn.) and Abdelilah Sakti (East Granby, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for an external optimization framework utilizing a defect model for multi-laser additive manufacturing of a part including determining a scalar metric for the part; employing the scalar metric in the defect model; providing at least one output from the defect model to the external optimization framework; and ...