US Patent Issued to Evident Canada on Nov. 25 for "Adaptive ultrasonic inspection for volumetric flaws" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,914, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Evident Canada Inc. (Quebec, Canada).

"Adaptive ultrasonic inspection for volumetric flaws" was invented by Benoit Lepage (L'Ancienne-Lorette, Canada) and Jinchi Zhang (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Acoustic evaluation of a target can be performed using an array of electro-acoustic transducers. For example, a technique for such evaluation can include generating acoustic transmission events using different transmitting apertures, the apertures defined by corresponding zones along the array, the zones including multiple electro-acoustic transducer elements. In response to the resp...