US Patent Issued to GRINDOSONIC on Sept. 8 for "Additive manufacturing monitoring method and system" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,599, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to GRINDOSONIC BV (Leuven, Belgium).

"Additive manufacturing monitoring method and system" was invented by Alex Van Den Bossche (Neerijse, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a method for non-destructively detecting deviating additive manufacturing (AM) process behaviour of a 3D printed solid piece, comprising the steps of: providing an impact to the solid piece, preferably a mechanical impact; obtaining a vibrational response of the solid piece to the impact in the frequency domain; extracting a set of eigenfrequencies, and optionally attenuations, from the vibra...