ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,909, issued on July 15, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis).
"Uniform machined parts inspection process" was invented by Monica Sy Munoz (Indianapolis) and Matthew Roman McHugh (Indianapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described by which to enable uniform machined parts inspection processes. A device comprising a memory and a processor may be configured to perform the techniques. The memory may store a unified scan of a workholding piece with a machined part, where the unified scan defines a coordinate system for the workholding piece. The memory may also store a reference model of the machined part. Th...