US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce on June 17 for "Powder flow measurement in additive manufacturing systems" (Indiana, Pennsylvania, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,737, issued on June 17, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis).

"Powder flow measurement in additive manufacturing systems" was invented by Scott Nelson (Indianapolis), Baily Thomas (Rogersville, Mo.), Abdalla R. Nassar (State College, Pa.), Jason Scherer (State College, Pa.) and John Grubbs (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder flow monitoring system may include a computing device configured to receive image data representing illuminated powder of a powder stream between a powder delivery device and a build surface of a component, generate a representation of the powder stream based on the image data, and o...