US Patent Issued to The Boeing on April 15 for "Additive manufacturing with adjusted cooling responsive to thermal characteristic of workpiece" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,192, issued on April 15, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Additive manufacturing with adjusted cooling responsive to thermal characteristic of workpiece" was invented by Andrew H. Baker (St. Louis), James B. Castle (Rolla, Mo.), Eric Erwin Thomas (Saint Charles, Mo.) and Samuel Joseph Easley (Saint Peters, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in additive manufacturing of a three-dimensional workpiece is described. The method includes depositing material onto a substrate to form a shape of the workpiece in accordance with an additive manufacturing process; determining a thermal characteristic of at least...