US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Jan. 20 for "Phased array ultrasonic testing device" (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,044, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Phased array ultrasonic testing device" was invented by Joseph Michael Shea Jr. (Slidell, La.), Alex McMullin (Athens, Ala.), Rosemarie Kathleen Sanders (Madison, Ala.), Gregory Allen Crum (Slidell, La.), Kevin Alan Maurigi Jr. (Bay St. Louis, Miss.) and Maurice Kyle Smith (Picayune, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phased array ultrasonic testing device for positioning first and second phased array probes relative to a surface of a material to be tested. The testing device includes a first wedge configured to receive and orient the first phased array...