US Patent Issued to The Boeing on March 4 for "Methods and systems for detection of impurities in additive manufacturing material" (Illinois, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,180, issued on March 4, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Methods and systems for detection of impurities in additive manufacturing material" was invented by Alexander J. Coco (Chicago), Brianna K. Nord (Chicago), Robert W. Grube (Seattle), Emma Romig (Chicago), Aaron C. Drollette (Chicago) and Eric M. Chapman (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for detection of impurities in additive manufacturing material includes illuminating, by a light source, a sample of additive manufacturing material with light, while illuminating the sample of the additive manufacturing material with light, causing a camera to ...