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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2018
Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc., Blacksburg, VA (US);
Anthony M. Ferrar, Christiansburg, VA (US);
William C. Schneck, Woodbridge, VA (US);
Walter F. O'Brien, Blaksburg, VA (US);
Kevin M. Hoopes, San Antonio, TX (US);
Justin Bailey, Blacksburg, VA (US);
VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC., Blackburg, VA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a process for making a flow conditioning device that transforms an input flow into a desired output flow. The process includes the steps of inputting into a computer program a set of design constraints representative of the input flow and the output flow. The computer program generates a design representative of a flow-conditioning device that transforms the input flow into the output flow. The process then provides the output design to an additive manufacturing or other suitable production system adapted to form a solid representation of the flow-conditioning device.