ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,463, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Nexcorr LLC (Dublin, Ohio).

"Multifunctional corrosion monitoring system and method" was invented by Cheolho Kang (Dublin, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and its method are provided for monitoring corrosion. An example includes a sensing unit having a specimen stack for measuring, in real time, pitting corrosion, and a separate plate for measuring, in real time, general corrosion. Electric current applied to each the specimen stack and the separate plate may be measured, and in one example, measured electrical resistance is used to estimate both pitting corrosion and general corro...