US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.U. on July 28 for "Tool and system for eddy current inspection" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,265, issued on July 28, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.U. (Getafe, Spain).

"Tool and system for eddy current inspection" was invented by Yolanda De Frutos Galindo (Getafe, Spain), Carlos Jusdado Serrano (Getafe, Spain) and Alejandro Arnaez Barrio (Getafe, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool for eddy current inspection is configured to be used with an inspection device, and includes one or more guides, wherein the, or each, guide is a disc, which may be a plastic disc. Each disc includes an adhesive on one of its surfaces, the adhesive being a detachable adhesive, i.e., it is a weak adhesive that allows removal of the d...