US Patent Issued to OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES, UNIVERSITE DU MANS on Dec. 30 for "Inspection device for manufacturing a part with addition of material" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,654, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES (Palaiseau, France) and UNIVERSITE DU MANS (Le Mans, France).

"Inspection device for manufacturing a part with addition of material" was invented by Bruno Fleury (Palaiseau, France), Pascal Picart (Le Mans, France), Matthieu Piniard (Palaiseau, France) and Beatrice Sorrente (Palaiseau, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for manufacturing a piece with addition of material includes an optical inspection unit for capturing at least one holographic image of a transformation zone of the material, in real time while the piece is bein...