ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,100, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Guided Ultrasonics Ltd (London).

"Methods and systems for determining a thickness of an elongate or extended structure" was invented by Keith Vine (Brentford, Great Britain), Thomas Vogt (Brentford, Great Britain) and Stefan Joshua Milewczyk (Brentford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a thickness of an elongate or extended structure using elastic waves is disclosed. The method comprises receiving at least one time-domain signal from a transducer, generating a frequency-domain signal in dependence upon the at least one time-domain signal, reducing noise in th...