US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Jan. 13 for "Variable plasma pulse generator for bondline strength verification" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,586, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Variable plasma pulse generator for bondline strength verification" was invented by Morteza Safai (Newcastle, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for evaluating a bond is provided. The system uses an adjustable submerged plasma probe to generate a compression wave in a first vessel containing a liquid. The system further includes a second vessel in which a vacuum is pulled to hold the first vessel against a bonded structure being inspected. The compression wave is directed to propagate from the liquid into the bonded structure to apply ...