ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,689, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BULL SAS (Les Clayes sous Bois, France).

"Predicting system in additive manufacturing process by machine learning algorithms" was invented by Enrique Garcia Albert (Madrid) and Daniel Campillo Garrote (Mostoles, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is disclosed a method and a predicting system for automatic prediction of porosity appearance generated during Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF), performed by an additive manufacturing system from at least one material. The method comprises steps for training a neural network comprising: generating labels of pore in every pixel using a porosity simu...