US Patent Issued to Innerspec Technologies on July 29 for "Magnetostrictive EMAT for in-motion inspection of railroad wheels" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,382, issued on July 29, was assigned to Innerspec Technologies (Forest, Va.).

"Magnetostrictive EMAT for in-motion inspection of railroad wheels" was invented by Borja Lopez Jauregui (Lynchburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to the inspection of train wheels while mounted on a train that is moving on a railroad track. A magnetostrictive EMAT transducer is built using an RF Coil, a static biasing magnetic field, and a strip of highly magnetostrictive material. This magnetostrictive EMAT transducer is subsequently attached to a rail on the track so the wheel tread of the moving train can contact and apply d...