ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,762, issued on July 7, was assigned to MICROTEC S.p.A. (Bressanone, Italy).
"Modular apparatus for the inspection of industrial products and related methods" was invented by Francesco Deppieri (Mira (VE), Italy) and Ruggero Frezza (Padua, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inspection of industrial products entails the "Model Based Design" paradigm with an apparatus associated with a digital clone of the real acquisition system. The digital clone reproduces in a virtual environment the features of said system and of the product affected by anomalies to be inspected.By generating virtual images of the product through simulations on sa...