ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,292, issued on April 29, was assigned to DarkVision Technologies Inc. (North Vancouver, Canada).
"Ultrasonic inspection of complex surfaces" was invented by Jay Roderick Hope (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method used to log images of target objects with ultrasound transducers. The object may be a fluid-carrying tubular, such as a pipeline. The transducers operate as phased arrays, insonifying areas of the target object with a plane wave and then storing the reflected signals. The signals are sampled and summed for each pixel, by considering various paths taken by the wave from transmitting to receiving...