US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global, University of Waterloo on June 17 for "Method and system for optimizing process parameters in an additive manufacturing process" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,217, issued on June 17, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich) and University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Calif.).

"Method and system for optimizing process parameters in an additive manufacturing process" was invented by Ali Bonakdar (Nuns Island, Canada), Farzad Liravi (Kitchener, Canada), Ehsan Toyserkani (Waterloo, Canada), Usman Ali (Waterloo, Canada), Shoja'edin Chenouri (Waterloo, Canada) and Yahya Mahmoodkhani (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for determining optimal values of significant process parameters in an additive manufacturing (AM) process for printing a part from ...