ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,870, issued on March 4, was assigned to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Ultrasonic non-destructive test method and system using deep learning, and auto-encoder-based prediction model training method used therefor" was invented by Jong Moon Ha (Daejeon, South Korea), Won Jae Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hong Min Seung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic NDT method and system, which can extract and analyze a defect signal even when a signal reflected from a defect interferes with a unique initial pulse of an ultrasonic transducer or a signal reflected from the...