US Patent Issued to Flow International on Dec. 9 for "Acoustic emissions monitoring of high pressure systems" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,961, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Flow International Corp. (Kent, Wash.).

"Acoustic emissions monitoring of high pressure systems" was invented by Greg Mital (Tacoma, Wash.) and Sean Schramm (Buckley, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are components, systems, and methods to monitor acoustic emissions of a high pressure system to predict failure of the high pressure system. Further disclosed herein are components, systems, and methods to monitor acoustic emissions of a high pressure system to identify characteristics of one or more defects as they form and grow within components of the high pressure system. Cha...