US Patent Issued to GEO SEARCH on July 1 for "Reinforcement bar corrosion evaluation device, reinforcement bar corrosion evaluation method, and computer program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,663, issued on July 1, was assigned to GEO SEARCH Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Reinforcement bar corrosion evaluation device, reinforcement bar corrosion evaluation method, and computer program" was invented by Hideaki Morita (Tokyo), Yoko Taki (Tokyo), Yukio Ozawa (Tokyo) and Masahiko Ota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reinforcement bar corrosion evaluation device capable of efficiently and quantitatively evaluating a degree of corrosion of reinforcement bar in a reinforced concrete (RC) deck bridge includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire reflection response data related to a reflection response of electromagnetic waves...