US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on March 18 for "Adaptively depositing braze material(s) using CT scan data" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,757, issued on March 18, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Adaptively depositing braze material(s) using CT scan data" was invented by Charles Trent Daulton (Burkburnett, Texas) and Kevin M. Tracy (Wichita Falls, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for providing a component. During this method, a substrate is scanned using computed tomography to provide substrate scan data. The substrate scan data is compared to substrate reference data to provide additive manufacturing data. Braze powder is deposited with the substrate based on the additive manufacturing data. The braze powder...