US Patent Issued to Giatec Scientific on May 13 for "Electrical methods and systems for concrete testing" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,265, issued on May 13, was assigned to Giatec Scientific Inc. (Ottawa).

"Electrical methods and systems for concrete testing" was invented by Pouria Ghods (Gloucester, Canada), Rouhollah Alizadeh (Gloucester, Canada) and Mustafa Salehi (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hundreds of thousands of concrete bridges and hundreds of billions of tons of concrete require characterization with time for corrosion. Accordingly, protocols for rapid testing and improved field characterization systems that automatically triangulate electrical resistivity and half-cell corrosion potential measurements would be beneficial allowing discrete/perio...