ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,069, issued on May 5, was assigned to WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Wuhan, China).
"Schlieren system for in-situ/online monitoring of spatter in large-area melt pool" was invented by Xin Lin (Wuhan, China), Kunpeng Zhu (Wuhan, China), Haihong Zhu (Wuhan, China), Xuefeng Chen (Wuhan, China) and Haodong Chen (Wuhan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A schlieren system for in-situ/online monitoring of spatter in a large-area melt pool is provided, including a parallel light generation part, a parallel light deflection part, and an image acquisition part. The system can monitor spatter and other physical phenomena in the m...