US Patent Issued to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS on Sept. 9 for "Automated defect detection" (Oklahoma, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,263, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"Automated defect detection" was invented by Jeremy Vandam (Edmond, Okla.), Sheldon McCrackin (Houston), Samvid Jhaveri (Oklahoma City) and Braden Starcher (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of nondestructive testing includes receiving data characterizing an image of an inspection region of an industrial machine acquired by an inspection device configured to inspect the inspection region. The inspection device includes a camera and a light source. The camera has a first position and a first orientation and the light source has a sec...