US Patent Issued to BAE Systems on Nov. 4 for "Structural simulation of additively manufactured components" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,037, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BAE Systems plc (London).

"Structural simulation of additively manufactured components" was invented by Matthew James Prentice (Preston, Great Britain), Steven Robert Barnes (Balderstone, Great Britain), Austin James Cook (Balderstone, Great Britain) and Stephen Arthur Morgan (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating a property of an article manufactured, at least in part, by additive manufacturing, AM, preferably directed energy deposition, DED, and/or powder bed fusion, PBF, is described. The method implemented, at least in part, by a computer comprising a pr...