ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,706, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GRALE TECHNOLOGIES (Youngstown, Ohio).
"In-process digital twinning" was invented by Michael Garvey (Youngstown, Ohio), Fred Persi (Youngstown, Ohio) and Matthew Walther (Youngstown, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing control system for an additive, subtractive, or hybrid machining system implements in situ part inspection to collect as-built metrology data for a manufactured part while the part remains in the work envelop, and uses the resulting measured inspection data to generate an as-built digital twin that accurately models the finished part. After execution of a subtract...