ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,274, issued on May 13, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Flexible sensor assembly" was invented by Aparna C. Sheila-Vadde (Bangalore, India), Manoj Kumar Koyithitta Meethal (Bangalore, India) and James Wilson Rose (Guilderland, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor for a flexible sensor assembly includes a drive coil, a first set of sensing coils, a second set of sensing coils, and a configuration for sensing for discontinuities in a structure desired to be sensed. A method of operating the sensor can include positioning the sensor proximate to the structure, energizing the drive coil, and sensing eddy cu...