US Patent Issued on June 23 for "Systems and methods for analysis of material properties of components and structures using machining processes to enable stress relief in the material under test" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,347, issued on June 23.

"Systems and methods for analysis of material properties of components and structures using machining processes to enable stress relief in the material under test" was invented by Adrian T. DeWald (Sacramento, Calif.), Michael R. Hill (Davis, Calif.), Eric Summer (Sacramento, Calif.), Brett Watanabe (Sacramento, Calif.) and Teresa Wong (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Analysis of residual stress in materials is often done in static conditions in a laboratory. Accurate systems and methods for performing these analyses in a dynamic, non-laboratory environment are notoriously difficult and can b...