US Patent Issued to Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University on Nov. 25 for "Method for embedding optical fiber sensor in metal 3D printing structure, and metal 3D printing turbine blade having embedded optical fiber sensor manufactured by applying embedding method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,030, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for embedding optical fiber sensor in metal 3D printing structure, and metal 3D printing turbine blade having embedded optical fiber sensor manufactured by applying embedding method" was invented by WonHyoung Ryu (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Seon iL Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Ho Yun Jung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide an optical fiber sensor embedding method for a three-dimensional (3D) metal printing structure capable of embedding an op...