ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,441, issued on Dec. 30.

"Damage detection system" was invented by Mark Bonner (West Yorkshire, Great Britain), David Edgar (West Yorkshire, Great Britain) and Milos Bozic (West Yorkshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damage detection system for monitoring a magnetised structure for damage comprising: a magnetometer; and a controller configured to: receive a first magnetic field signal of the magnetised structure from the magnetometer; receive a second magnetic field signal of the magnetised structure from the magnetometer; determine magnetic field displacement data based on the second magnetic field signal and the f...