US Patent Issued to BWXT Advanced Technologies on Feb. 4 for "Deep learning based image enhancement for additive manufacturing" (Maryland, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,402, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC (Lynchburg, Va.).

"Deep learning based image enhancement for additive manufacturing" was invented by Simon Mason (Baltimore), Ryan Scott Kitchen (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Travis McFalls (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for enhancing image resolution for sequences of 2-D images of additively manufactured products. For each of a plurality of additive manufacturing processes, the process obtains a respective plurality of sequenced low-resolution 2-D images of a respective product during the respective additive manufacturing process and...