US Patent Issued to UT-Battelle on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for powder bed additive manufacturing anomaly detection" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,731, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods for powder bed additive manufacturing anomaly detection" was invented by Luke R. Scime (Knoxville, Tenn.), Vincent C. Paquit (Knoxville, Tenn.), Desarae J. Goldsby (Knoxville, Tenn.), William H. Halsey (Knoxville, Tenn.), Chase B. Joslin (Knoxville, Tenn.), Michael D. Richardson (Knoxville, Tenn.), Derek C. Rose (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Derek H. Siddel (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detection and classification of anomalies for powder bed metal additive manufacturing. Anomalies, such as recoater blade impacts, binder depos...