US Patent Issued to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Detecting and removing defects in laser powder bed fusion manufacturing" (Missouri, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,301, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies LLC (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Detecting and removing defects in laser powder bed fusion manufacturing" was invented by Jamee-Dawn Marie Gray (Kansas City, Mo.), Benjamin Ross Brown (Lee's Summit, Mo.), Daniel Scott Kessler (Stilwell, Kan.) and Andrew David Deal (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and programs for detecting and removing defects on a part during laser powder bed fusion manufacturing are described. A sensor may detect defects on the part during manufacturing of the part. A controller may obtain the sensor da...