ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,071, issued on May 20, was assigned to CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY (Changsha, China).
"Method and system for identifying cavity position of structure based on global search" was invented by Longjun Dong (Changsha, China), Yongchao Chen (Changsha, China) and Qingchun Hu (Changsha, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for identifying a cavity position of a structure based on global search includes: step 1: using a structure requiring cavity position identification as a target area, arranging acoustic emission sensors at key positions of the target area, and acquiring actual travel time of signals between the acoustic e...