US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on June 10 for "Additive manufacturing with in situ defect detection" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,191, issued on June 10, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Additive manufacturing with in situ defect detection" was invented by Steven M. Storck (Catonsville, Md.), Nathan G. Drenkow (Columbia, Md.), Brendan P. Croom (Baltimore), Ryan H. Carter (Ellicott City, Md.) and Robert K. Mueller (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring and analyzing an additive manufacturing process includes heating a melt zone to fuse an additive media with an active layer to build a part being manufactured based on a part design model, capturing raw melt data of the melt zone, and generating an active la...