ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,138, issued on May 20, was assigned to Waygate Technologies USA LP (Houston).

"Digital twin of an automated non-destructive ultrasonic testing system" was invented by Weiwei Zhang (Bonn, Germany) and Frank Kahmann (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for generating a digital twin representation of an ultrasonic testing environment. In one aspect, probe position data received from one or more controllers and coordinate system data generated by one or more sensors can be used to generate a digital twin representation of an ultrasonic testing environment. In another aspect, generating the digi...