Sigma Labs Gets Process Control Patent
Sigma Labs, Inc. (Santa Fe, NM), a leading provider of in-process melt pool quality assurance software, announced that they were allowed a seminal patent entitled “Method and System for Monitoring Additive Manufacturing Processes” that provides protection for their methods of assuring part quality using real-time data from multiple sensor types. It enables serial production applications through real-time tracking and reporting of process consistency and part repeatability. The patent being allowed is for the first application filed in a series of 18 patent applications submitted by the company over the past five years in the general domain of in-process quality assurance.
“Our PrintRite3D technology can be used in many additive manufacturing applications and helps our customers to increase their product time-to-market through a better understanding of their process variance and means by which to control it,” explained Mark Cola, the co-founder, president and chief technology officer of Sigma Labs. “Looking to the future, it will allow our customers to achieve product yield improvements during serial production through use of our proprietary software algorithms.”
