ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,520, issued on May 13, was assigned to Universite de Chambery-Universite Savoie Mont Blanc (Chambery, France).

"Part control device and method" was invented by Pierre Nagorny (Chambery, France), Eric Pairel (Chambery, France) and Maurice Pillet (Chambery, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description concerns a device for controlling parts being manufactured, comprising at least one image sensor configured to form, for each part at last one first image by thermography and at least one second image by polarimetry."

The patent was filed on Sept. 18, 2020, under Application No. 17/762,476.

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