US Patent Issued to General Electric on April 1 for "In-process optical based monitoring and control of additive manufacturing processes" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,636, issued on April 1, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"In-process optical based monitoring and control of additive manufacturing processes" was invented by Scott Alan Gold (Waynesville, Ohio) and John Poland (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for optical based monitoring of additive manufacturing processes are provided. In one example a method includes obtaining optical data representing a layer of a structure being manufactured using an additive manufacturing process, comparing the optical data with a standard optical representation associated with the structure, determining one o...