ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,033, issued on April 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Damage diagram creation support method and damage diagram creation support device" was invented by Tadashi Kasamatsu (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Makoto Yonaha (Tokyo) and Naoko Yoshida (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a damage diagram creation support method, which includes: acquiring information on a region having internal damage to a structure within an inspection target region; acquiring a visible light image obtained by imaging the inspection target region with a visible light camera; detecting fissuring appearing on a surface of th...