ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,007, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis).
"Powder flow measurement in additive manufacturing systems" was invented by Scott Nelson (Indianapolis), John Grubbs (Indianapolis) and Quinlan Yee Shuck (Indianapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include one or more computing devices configured to receive image data representing illuminated powder of a powder stream between a powder delivery device of an additive manufacturing system and a build surface of a component; determine at least one metric associated with the powder stream based on the received image data; determine whether the at least...