ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,721, issued on Aug. 11.
"System and method for mode identification and extraction in guided wave signals and nondestructive methods for automatically sensing, locating, and/or characterizing problems in structures" was invented by Steven Michael Ziola (Centennial, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided herein for determining a characteristic of a guided wave traveling in a structure. The method includes comparing theoretical dispersion curves for the structure and a wavelet transform image of the guided wave to identify a match, which in an embodiment is a cross-correlation. In an exemplary embodiment, ...