ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,993, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Royal Engineered Composites Inc. (Minden, Neb.).

"Mold inspection for composite fabrication with AI quality control modules" was invented by Matthew J. deFreese (Holdrege, Neb.), Judah Crowe (Kearney, Neb.) and John Loucks (Sauble Beach, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quality control system may include a controller configured to be communicatively coupled with a monitoring assembly including one or more detectors. The controller may implement two or more artificial intelligence quality control (AIQC) modules associated with two or more process steps for fabricating a composite material...