US Patent Issued to GKN Sinter Metals Engineering on Sept. 30 for "Method for controlling a production process for producing components" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,859, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbH (Radevormwald, Germany).

"Method for controlling a production process for producing components" was invented by Thomas Villgrattner (Brixen, Italy), Gottfried Rier (Bruneck Dietenheim, Italy), Meinhard Ploner (Bruneck, Italy) and Christina Messner (Bruneck St. Georgen, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a production process for components, wherein the components or a production device used for producing the components have or has features which are metrologically detectable. The method comprising specifying a test plan for detectin...