US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Sept. 9 for "Tunable system and method for stress resolution in additive manufacturing" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,609, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Tunable system and method for stress resolution in additive manufacturing" was invented by John Bowler (Phoenix), Gregory Colvin (Phoenix) and Suresh Sundarraj (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods resolve stresses in additive manufacturing. A stress resolution profile including frequency and amplitude parameters of an ultrasonic input are determined based on physical properties of the product. Successive layers of a material are added and energy is applied to incorporate the material of each layer into the product. An ...