ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,366, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Giatec Scientific Inc. (Nepean, Canada).
"Embedded wireless monitoring sensors" was invented by Pouria Ghods (Gloucester, Canada), Rouhollah Alizadeh (Nepean, Canada), Mustafa Salehi (Nepean, Canada) and Sarah De Carufel (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Concrete can be one of the most durable building materials where consumption is projected to reach approximately 40 billion tons in 2017 alone. Despite this the testing of concrete at all stages of its life cycle is still in its infancy although testing for corrosion is well established. Further many of the tests today are time consuming, ex...