US Patent Issued to General Electric on April 7 for "Vibration sensor and methods for deposition monitoring" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,030, issued on April 7, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Vibration sensor and methods for deposition monitoring" was invented by Stephanie Cavallaro (Mechanicville, N.Y.), Don M. Lipkin (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Andrew Lee Trimmer (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods are provided herein that are useful to monitoring a coating deposition process. In some embodiments, a method of monitoring a coating process for a target object involves applying a coating to at least a portion of a beam during at least part of a coating deposition process to obtain a coated beam. The method als...