US Patent Issued to Science Applications International on Feb. 4 for "Flexible and/or deformable mechanical elements with radiographic markers" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,066, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Science Applications International Corp. (Reston, Va.).

"Flexible and/or deformable mechanical elements with radiographic markers" was invented by Theodore W. Eastes (Monterey Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible and/or deformable mechanical element may comprise one or more radiographic markers. The one or more radiographic markers may have a radiopacity greater than a radiopacity of a parent material forming a body of the mechanical element. A radiographic image of a portion of an assembly into which the mechanical element has been installed may include a representation of the ...