US Patent Issued to University of South Carolina on Aug. 5 for "Vibration test-cell with axial load and in-situ microscopy" (South Carolina, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,279, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to University of South Carolina (Columbia, S.C.).

"Vibration test-cell with axial load and in-situ microscopy" was invented by Victor Giurgiutiu (Columbia, S.C.), Md Yeasin Bhuiyan (Vergennes, Vt.) and Matthew Droghini (Aiken, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new vibration test-cell that allows a static load to be applied simultaneously with lateral vibration coupled with in-situ microscopy that allows for the ability to open a fatigue crack up to a desired gap, as well as generate acoustic emission (AE) from vibration excitation, micro-fracture events are captured by the AE measurement while t...