US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 14 for "System and method for assessing the ability to remove loose powder from an additively manufacturable article" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,038, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"System and method for assessing the ability to remove loose powder from an additively manufacturable article" was invented by Michael C. Elford (Springfield, Australia) and Andrew J. Stephan (Brisbane, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of assessing the ability to remove powder from an additively manufacturable article includes performing the following for each of a plurality of discrete starting points distributed within a sampling volume: calculating the starting point directional trajectory lengths of a plurality of trajectories of a particle ...