ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,005, issued on June 3, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Systems and methods for verifying additive manufacturing workflows" was invented by Juan Carlos Flores Perez (The Woodlands, Texas), Mikhail Gladkikh (Conroe, Texas) and Muhammad Faisal Iqbal (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods may involve accepting pre-manufacture verification of manufacturer capabilities and product precursors for a product. Discrete packets of operational parameters to enable an additive manufacturing device to manufacture the product may be generated, each packet enabling manufacture of a respective portion ...