US Patent Issued to The Texas A&M University System on Oct. 28 for "Methods of optimizing 3-D printing parameters for metallic materials" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,005, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Methods of optimizing 3-D printing parameters for metallic materials" was invented by Alaa Elwany (College Station, Texas), Ibrahim Karaman (College Station, Texas), Raymundo Arroyave (College Station, Texas), Raiyan Seede (College Station, Texas), Bing Zhang (College Station, Texas) and Luke Johnson (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining alloy processing parameters is provided. Simulated melt pool temperature and melt pool geometries can be used to create an initial printability map based on las...