ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,915, issued on May 13, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).
"X-ray digital image correlation" was invented by Enrico C. Quintana (Albuquerque, N.M.), Elizabeth M. C. Jones (Cedar Crest, N.M.), Daniel Peter Rohe (Albuquerque, N.M.), Bryan Lee Witt (Albuquerque, N.M.), Timothy J. Miller (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Phillip L. Reu (Albuquerque, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of X-ray digital image correlation is provided. The method comprises aligning cameras of an X-ray imaging system, wherein the X-ray imaging system comprises two X-ray sources pointed at a target area...