US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Jan. 28 for "Method and device for ultrasonic inspection of composite parts, in particular made from carbon fiber reinforced plastics, device and computer program" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,992, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method and device for ultrasonic inspection of composite parts, in particular made from carbon fiber reinforced plastics, device and computer program" was invented by Patrick Peuker (Hamburg, Germany), Timo Dallman (Hamburg, Germany), Tom Blechschmidt (Hamburg, Germany), Guido Kuhlmann (Hamburg, Germany) and Hubert Temmen (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ultrasonic inspection of composite parts includes providing a composite part to be inspected with a plurality of layers, determining the runtime and/or attenuation of an u...