US Patent Issued to HITACHI-GE NUCLEAR ENERGY on Sept. 2 for "Piping wall thinning prediction system, piping soundness evaluation system, and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,251, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to HITACHI-GE NUCLEAR ENERGY LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Piping wall thinning prediction system, piping soundness evaluation system, and method" was invented by Shirou Takahashi (Tokyo), Akinori Tamura (Tokyo), Michiaki Kurosaki (Hitachi, Japan) and Yoshizumi Fukuhara (Hitachi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a piping wall thinning prediction system, a piping soundness evaluation system, and a method which can evaluate a wall thinning amount, a wall thinning rate, and a remaining life at a high speed based on limited actual measurement results, and identify a location requi...