ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,657, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER- UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH (Ditzingen, Germany).
"Splatter detection by artificial intelligence during laser processing" was invented by Oliver Bocksrocker (Sachsenheim, Germany), Julia Hartung (Rottweil, Germany), Andreas Jahn (Dornhan, Germany) and Vinayakraj Salvarrajan (Ehningen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying splatters or weld seam defects during laser processing of a workpiece includes processing the workpiece using a processing laser beam of a laser processing machine, compiling at least one recording of radiation emerging during the processing ...