US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on May 13 for "Methods for laser calibration in additive manufacturing systems, and systems configured for same" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,538, issued on May 13, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Methods for laser calibration in additive manufacturing systems, and systems configured for same" was invented by Gunaranjan Chaudhry (Karnataka, India), Thomas Dobrowolski (The Woodlands, Texas), Chad Yates (Houston), Jayesh Jain (The Woodlands, Texas), Mackenzie Dreese (Oklahoma City) and Lakshmi Jyotshna Vendra (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of calibrating a laser of an additive manufacturing system involves processing a test pattern with the laser while varying one or more of laser power and/or scan speed. Thermal energ...