US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Aug. 5 for "Representative part, methods of designing representative parts, methods of forming and testing representative parts, and methods of qualifying additive manufacturing systems" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,262, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Representative part, methods of designing representative parts, methods of forming and testing representative parts, and methods of qualifying additive manufacturing systems" was invented by Ameen Moh'd Jehad Malkawi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Naeem-ur Minhas (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Raghava Raju Lakhamraju (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Zahra Ridha Aleid (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Hussain Sharrofna (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a representative part correlating to an actual part. The method includes receiving a...