US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 15 for "Active temperature compensation technique for structural health monitoring sensors" (Missouri, Maryland, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,086, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Active temperature compensation technique for structural health monitoring sensors" was invented by Morteza Safai (Newcastle, Wash.), Ryan M. Clancy (Saint Charles, Mo.) and Kelly A. DeLawder (Bel Air, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting an anomaly in a structure using an adaptive filter to compensate for variations in piezoelectric transducer performance due to environmental factors such as temperature. A first voltage signal having a first amplitude is sent to a reference piezoelectric actuator. Thereafter, a first reference voltage ...