US Patent Issued to GEO SEARCH on May 27 for "Reinforced concrete structure evaluating device, method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,134, issued on May 27, was assigned to GEO SEARCH Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Reinforced concrete structure evaluating device, method, and program" was invented by Hideaki Morita (Tokyo), Yoko Taki (Tokyo) and Yukio Ozawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acquisition section (12) acquires a reflected wave intensity image in which a reflected wave intensity of an electromagnetic wave that has been radiated in a direction through a surface of a reinforced concrete structure toward an interior of the reinforced concrete structure at respective positions on the surface of the reinforced concrete structure is expressed by pixel values of pi...