US Patent Issued to Blue Origin Manufacturing on June 17 for "Printed porous media, such as for use in aerospace parts, and associated systems and methods" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,214, issued on June 17, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Printed porous media, such as for use in aerospace parts, and associated systems and methods" was invented by Matthew Perry (Federal Way, Wash.), Lloyd J. Droppers (Renton, Wash.) and Wade Stahl (Kent, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Porous media and methods of manufacturing porous media, such as for use in aerospace parts, are described herein. In some embodiments, a porous medium comprises a monolithic structure having a plurality of vertically stacked metal layers. Individual ones of the metal layers can include an array of spaced apart...