ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,184, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Automated inspection for internal corrosion" was invented by Andrew DeBiccari (Hartford, Conn.) and Zhong Ouyang (Glastonbury, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for magnetically inspecting a metallic component uses a manipulator configured to manipulate a relative position between a part fixture that holds the metallic component and a probe fixture that holds a magnetic probe, thereby causing the probe tip to trace an inspection route along the surface of the metallic component so that the probe tip contacts the metallic component such that an angular d...