ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,913, issued on July 15, was assigned to Rosen IP AG (Stans, Switzerland).

"Method for determining the geometry of a defect and for determining a load limit" was invented by Andrey Danilov (Stans, Switzerland) and Matthias Peussner (Westerkappeln, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for determining the geometry of one or more real, examined defects of a metallic and in particular magnetizable object, in particular a pipe or a tank, by means of at least two reference data sets of the object generated on the basis of different, non-destructive measuring methods."

The patent was filed on April 9, 2020, under Appl...