US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on June 17 for "Rotating relative recoater and part orientation" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,371, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Rotating relative recoater and part orientation" was invented by Lawrence Binek (Glastonbury, Conn.) and David W. Morganson (Marlborough, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a method can include selectively sintering at least a portion of a part and one or more indexing features onto a build plate disposed in a build area of a feedstock powder bed, determining an actual orientation of the part and the build plate relative to a recoater prior to recoating, storing the actual orientation of t...