ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,564, issued on July 8, was assigned to BWXT Canada Ltd. (Cambridge, Canada).
"Ultrasonic device and method" was invented by Robert Andrew Dekker (Cambridge, Canada), Robert Jeffrey Martin (Cambridge, Canada) and Mitchel Lucas West (Cambridge, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic device for scanning an object, the device having a collar configured for coupling to the object, the collar having an arcuate segment, a carriage coupled to the collar, the carriage configured for displacement along the arcuate segment, a ultrasonic probe unit coupled to the collar and comprising a wedge having a contoured face configured for ma...