ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,041, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Porosity prediction" was invented by He Luan (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jun Zeng (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of methods for predicting porosity are described herein. In some examples, a method includes predicting a height map. In some examples, the height map is of material for metal printing. In some examples, the method includes predicting a porosity of a precursor object. In some examples, predicting the porosity of the precursor object is based on the predicted height map."
The patent was filed on Dec. 5, 2019, under Applica...