US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung on April 14 for "System and method for monitoring manufacturing precision in the additive manufacturing of three-dimensional components" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,085, issued on April 14, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V. (Munich).

"System and method for monitoring manufacturing precision in the additive manufacturing of three-dimensional components" was invented by Beatrice Bendjus (Dresden, Germany), Ulana Cikalova (Radeburg, Germany) and Mike Roellig (Radeburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring manufacturing precision in additive manufacturing of three-dimensional components. A combined illuminations and detection element is provided equipped with a two-dimensional detector array and at least one laser radiation...