US Patent Issued to Precitec on Oct. 14 for "Method and laser machining system for analyzing a weld seam formed by a laser welding process" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,926, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Precitec GmbH & Co. KG (Gaggenau, Germany).

"Method and laser machining system for analyzing a weld seam formed by a laser welding process" was invented by Alexis Donke (Pforzheim, Germany), Thorsten Lorenz (Iffezheim, Germany), Jonas Nolte (Karlsruhe, Germany), Wei Quang Duong (Raststatt, Germany), Sascha Grau (Karlsruhe, Germany), Simon Hahle (Gaggenau, Germany), Rudiger Moser (Malsch, Germany), Stefan Birmanns (Rheinau, Switzerland) and Jens Reiser (Rheinstetten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for analyzing a weld seam formed by a laser welding process includes thermally exc...