US Patent Issued to Predictant on July 22 for "Determining residual tension in threaded fasteners" (North Carolina, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,493, issued on July 22, was assigned to Predictant LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Determining residual tension in threaded fasteners" was invented by Armita Mohammadian (Raleigh, N.C.), Gaofeng Sha (Copley, Ohio), Joshua Scott (Raleigh, N.C.), Ethan Loewenthal (Durham, N.C.), Klarissa Ramos (Raleigh, N.C.), Ashtad Javanmardi (Raleigh, N.C.), Akash Nikam (Knightdale, N.C.), Ziad Siddique (Cary, N.C.) and J. Darrin Holt (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for determining residual tension of a target bolt. An example method may include modeling ratios of times-of-flight of longitudina...