US Patent Issued to AMIQUAM on Sept. 22 for "Method for non-destructive testing of regions of interest of a metal piece during additive manufacturing" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,320, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to AMIQUAM SA (Gland, Switzerland).

"Method for non-destructive testing of regions of interest of a metal piece during additive manufacturing" was invented by Bernard Revaz (Geneva), Marc Lany (Rolle, Switzerland), Gilles Santi (Lausanne, Switzerland), Adriaan B Spierings (Wittenbach, Switzerland) and Marvin A Spurek (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring metal pieces including generating, on a computing device, a 3D digital model of a metal piece to be produced by additive manufacturing; and identifying regions of interest in the model where defects are more ...