US Patent Issued to Consolidated Nuclear Security on July 8 for "Methods and assemblies for characterizing ultrasonic environments using piezo-electric sensor devices" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,859, issued on July 8, was assigned to Consolidated Nuclear Security LLC (Oak Ride, Tunisia).

"Methods and assemblies for characterizing ultrasonic environments using piezo-electric sensor devices" was invented by Edward Bolling Ripley (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for characterizing ultrasonic environments using piezo-electric sensor devices. In general, a piezo-electric sensor assembly is disposed and selectively repositioned in the fluid in an ultrasonic cleaning vessel, before, while, or after a component to be cleaned is present, providing quantitative and directional data regarding the high...