US Patent Issued to Xerox on Oct. 28 for "Real-time molten droplet analyzer with spatial modulation in additive manufacturing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,004, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Real-time molten droplet analyzer with spatial modulation in additive manufacturing" was invented by Qiushu Chen (San Bruno, Calif.), Peter Kiesel (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dogan Timucin (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining characteristics of a stream of jetted material in a three-dimensional (3D) printer are disclosed. An example system includes an ejector configured to release molten droplets along a jetting path from the ejector to a build platform. The system also includes a sensor positioned adjacent to the jetting path ...