Patents by Inventor Johanna L. Sumner

Johanna L. Sumner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230117766
    Abstract: A system and method for creating pre-compensated parts through additive manufacturing by providing more precise compensation in part regions either through a user specified selection of the region or an automatic selection of the region. An additive manufacturing system first generates a computer-aided design (CAD) image and then measures the physical representation of the component, then determines the amount to be compensated and generates a compensation field using multi-level b-spline morphing over the entire part to create a 3-D part. Embodiments can also include automation to determine the best level to morph all the points on the entire additive manufactured part, using incremental morphs, determining the correct morphing level locally, and using weights to determine what regions receive high level morphs as they are compensated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pinghai Yang, Kenneth Hix, Johanna L. Sumner, Brian S. McCarthy, Michelle Brault