US Patent Issued to SOCOMATE INTERNATIONAL on June 17 for "Method for detecting discontinuities and system for implementing said method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,218, issued on June 17, was assigned to SOCOMATE INTERNATIONAL (Crecy la Chapelle, France).

"Method for detecting discontinuities and system for implementing said method" was invented by Philippe Coperet (Crecy la Chapelle, France), Lievin Camus (Crecy la Chapelle, France) and Jean-Marc Carpeza (Crecy la Chapelle, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method including the steps of defining a transmission sequence, in which a plurality of transmit transducers is uniformly and randomly selected among the transducers of a probe on the active surface of the probe and a time offset is uniformly and randomly defined for each...