US Patent Issued to VAREX IMAGING on Nov. 18 for "Self-centering clamp adapter for x-ray and gammaray weld inspection" (Florida, Texas, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,280, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to VAREX IMAGING Corp. (Salt Lake City).

"Self-centering clamp adapter for x-ray and gammaray weld inspection" was invented by Tibby Petrescu (Houston), Cody W. Bussey (West Jordan, Utah) and Clyde May (Gulf Breeze, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include a radiographic inspection system, comprising: a clamp comprises a housing, a base, three clamping contacts, and an actuator; wherein: the clamp is configured to be positioned around a structure and to be coupled to the structure; the base is coupled to the housing through a rotary bearing, is moveable relative to the housing,...