ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,975, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SIEMENS INDUSTRY SOFTWARE NV (Leuven, Belgium).
"Method and system for generating a test coupon specification for predicting fatigue life of a component" was invented by Nicolas Lammens (Herent, Belgium) and Matthias Schulz (Kaiserslautern, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a test coupon specification for predicting fatigue life of a component includes determining a load condition for the component, providing a component design, and performing a strength analysis of the component design under the load condition determining a critical area of the component and a stress...