US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, AKITA UNIVERSITY on Aug. 12 for "Joint portion evaluating method and joint portion evaluating device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,870, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo) and AKITA UNIVERSITY (Akita, Japan).

"Joint portion evaluating method and joint portion evaluating device" was invented by Mikio Muraoka (Akita, Japan), Nobuyuki Kamihara (Tokyo), Kiyoka Takagi (Tokyo), Sota Kamo (Tokyo), Naomoto Ishikawa (Tokyo), Hideki Horizono (Tokyo) and Toshiyuki Takayanagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joint portion evaluating method for measuring and evaluating a joint state of a joint portion at which a first joint body and a second joint body are joined together, the joint portion evaluating method including the steps ...