ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,904, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Rosen IP AG (Stans, Switzerland).
"Method for non-destructively testing objects, in particular planar objects, made of a fibre-reinforced composite material" was invented by Tobias Roelfes (Spelle, Germany) and Hanna Krumpel (Neuenkirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided in which an ultrasonic signal is generated as an electromagnetic ultrasonic signal by the at least one transmitting transducer, which is in the form of an EMUS transducer, by means of a conductive layer arranged on the surface of the object or in said object. An evaluation apparatus is used to utiliz...