ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,419, issued on June 24, was assigned to Tessonics Corp. (Birmingham, Mich.).
"Ultrasonic micro-array imaging system" was invented by Roman Gr. Maev (Windsor, Canada), Andrew Ouellette (Windsor, Canada) and Andriy Chertov (Windsor, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spot-welding electrode assembly includes an electrode, an electrode cap at an outer end of the electrode, and a plurality of transducer elements positioned inward of the electrode cap. The transducer elements may be micro-elements. A method for monitoring a weld formed by a spot-welder includes passing current from an electrode assembly through a stack-up, transmittin...