US Patent Issued to Norsk Titanium AS on Nov. 11 for "Volumetric plasma gas flow measurement and control system for metal-based wire-plasma arc additive manufacturing applications" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,998, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Norsk Titanium AS (Honefoss, Norway).

"Volumetric plasma gas flow measurement and control system for metal-based wire-plasma arc additive manufacturing applications" was invented by Ehsan Rezapour (Oslo, Norway) and Brede Vigdal (Tyristrand, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for regulation of mass flow and monitoring of volumetric flow, for regulation of volumetric flow and monitoring of mass flow, and for regulation of both mass and volumetric flow of gas to a plasma torch for wire-plasma arc additive manufacturing processes, and methods for manufacturing m...