ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,719, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Method and device for monitoring a milling process" was invented by Henning Ochsenfeld (Nuremberg, Germany), Thorsten Reimann (Erlangen, Germany) and Liam Pettigrew (Petersham, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for monitoring a milling process of a printed circuit board, having the steps of: (a) detecting (S1) the rotational speed of a milling head (2) of a milling machine (1) and at least one other operating parameter of the milling machine (1) during the milling process, wherein the other operating parameter is an electric supply cu...