US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for in-situ, real-time additive manufacturing analysis" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,138, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for in-situ, real-time additive manufacturing analysis" was invented by Cemal Cem Tasan (Cambridge, Mass.) and Gianluca Roscioli (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for analyzing mechanical properties in-situ and in real-time of an object being additively manufactured are provided. Such systems can include an inducer (e.g., micro- or nano-inducer) that measures one or more parameters of the object being manufactured, such as a hardness or modulus of material deposited to form the obje...