US Patent Issued to GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 11 for "Automated identification of cooling holes and toolpath generation" (New York, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,897, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Automated identification of cooling holes and toolpath generation" was invented by Rajesh Ramamurthy (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Kevin George Harding (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Jonathan Matthew Lomas (Greenville, S.C.) and Vadim Bromberg (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing a part includes: identifying (2502) a location of at least one hole (62) disposed in the part using a computer-aided design (CAD) model of the part (36); aligning (2504) the part in a mounting system (56); 3D-scanning (2506) the part (36); detecting (2520...