ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,688, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Spatio-temporal monitoring of photopolymerization progression and related mechanisms" was invented by Abhinav Parakh (Livermore, Calif.), Martin Patrick De Beer (Livermore, Calif.), Magi Yassa (Livermore, Calif.), Elena Romane Lilith Belk (Dublin, Calif.), Sijia Huang (Dublin, Calif.), Johanna Jesse Schwartz (Livermore, Calif.) and Xiaoxing Xia (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one general embodiment, a method includes, during performance of an additive manufacturing process that includes photocuring of a resin, m...