ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,603, issued on July 29, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).
"Adaptive manufacturing using CT scan data" was invented by Kevin M. Tracy (Wichita Falls, Texas) and Charles Trent Daulton (Burkburnett, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for providing a component. During this method, braze powder is deposited with a substrate. The braze powder is sintered together during the depositing of the braze powder to provide the substrate with sintered braze material. The sintered braze material is heated to melt the sintered braze material and to diffusion bond the sintered braze material to t...