US Patent Issued to General Electric on Oct. 14 for "Closed loop gated recoater monitoring system" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,058, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Closed loop gated recoater monitoring system" was invented by Justin Mamrak (Loveland, Ohio), MacKenzie Ryan Redding (Mason, Ohio) and Zachary David Fieldman (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and apparatuses (300) for monitoring the flow of a powder (619). A powder distribution system (605) may include an inlet (622) for receiving powder (619) from a powder reservoir (627). The powder reservoir (627) may include an outlet (618) to supply powder (619) received from the inlet (622). The ap...