US Patent Issued to The Boeing on March 17 for "Systems and methods for predicting material properties of a part to be additive-manufactured" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,704, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for predicting material properties of a part to be additive-manufactured" was invented by Andrew H. Baker (St. Louis), Luke A. Berglind (Brentwood, Mo.), Lawrence E. Pado (St. Charles, Mo.), Justin L'Hote (St. Peters, Mo.), Elaine MacDonald (Wildwood, Mo.) and Baily J. Thomas (Lake St. Louis, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for predicting material properties of a part to be additive-manufactured. The method includes additive-manufacturing a plurality of standard parts, and obtaining thermal profiles at select predet...