US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on Sept. 30 for "Model predictive control (MPC) for controlling internal temperature distributions within parts being manufactured via the powder bed fusion process" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,575, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Model predictive control (MPC) for controlling internal temperature distributions within parts being manufactured via the powder bed fusion process" was invented by Nathaniel Joseph Wood (Columbus, Ohio) and David John Hoelzle (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Estimation algorithms, methods, and systems are provided that estimate the internal temperatures inside of a part being built using powder bed fusion (PBF). Closed-loop state estimation is applied to the problem of monitoring temperature fields within parts during the PBF ...