US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on Dec. 16 for "Computer-implemented, adapted anomaly detection method for powder-bed-based additive manufacturing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,533, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Bayern, Germany).

"Computer-implemented, adapted anomaly detection method for powder-bed-based additive manufacturing" was invented by Hamid Jahangir (Aachen, Germany) and Vivian Schiller (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented anomaly detection method in powder-bed-based additive manufacture of a workpiece includes (i) providing an image data set and applying a Principal Component Analysis to said image data to compute a number of image clusters, (ii) applying a clustering algorithm to the analyzed image data and computing ...