US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 28 for "Methods of precisely regulating a process gas flow through a process chamber of an additive manufacturing system and additive manufacturing systems that perform the methods" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,497, issued on July 28, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods of precisely regulating a process gas flow through a process chamber of an additive manufacturing system and additive manufacturing systems that perform the methods" was invented by Dalton W. Hamburg (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of precisely regulating a process gas flow through a process chamber of an additive manufacturing system and related systems. The methods include positioning a removeable flow rate sensor to measure an actual bulk flow rate of the process gas flow and controlling the process gas flow to a desired bulk f...