ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,232, issued on June 17, was assigned to Precitec GmbH & Co. KG (Gaggenau, Germany).

"Method for monitoring a laser machining process on workpieces" was invented by Erich Schauer (Kuppenheim, Germany) and Eric Supernok (Edesheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a laser machining process for machining workpieces includes: for a plurality of machining steps, detecting a measurement signal for at least one measurement variable during a machining step; in a setting phase, defining a limit value for at least one monitoring parameter based on the measurement signals detected during the setting phase; and in a ...