US 12,130,265 B2
Robotic arm nanoindenting for material validation, mass serialization, enhanced joining, and forensic identification
Steve Simske, Fort Collins, CO (US); and Katrina Weinmann, Fort Collins, CO (US)
Assigned to Colorado State University Research Foundation, Fort Collins, CO (US)
Filed by Colorado State University Research Foundation, Fort Collins, CO (US)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/706,989.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/167,306, filed on Mar. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0307957 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G01N 3/42 (2006.01); B25J 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 3/42 (2013.01) [B25J 15/0019 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method for indentation of physical items, the method comprising:
forming, via an indenter, a plurality of first indents in a first surface of a first physical item, wherein the first indents are disposed within a first defined region of the first surface and arranged in a first encoded pattern corresponding to a first item-specific serialization code for the first physical item; and
validating a first material of the first physical item based at least in part on the first indents.