US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Feb. 3 for "Diagnostic systems and methods" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,969, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Diagnostic systems and methods" was invented by Mark Edward Nowakowski (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a diagnostic system includes applying electric fields to test sites within an active layer of a circuit and illuminating sensor sites within a sensor layer of the circuit. The sensor layer comprises crystallographic defects and the sensor sites are respectively aligned with the test sites. The method also includes determining intensities of photoluminescence detected from the crystallographic defects of the sensor sites. The ...