ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,096, issued on April 14, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).
"Adaptive borescope inspection" was invented by Sheldon McCrackin (Houston), Jeremy Vandam (Edmond, Okla.), Carlneil Domkam (Houston), Samvid Jhaveri (Oklahoma City), Brice Kim (Houston), Kevin Coombs (Houston), Matthew Pankow (Houston) and Tom Lambdin (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of adaptive inspection includes receiving data characterizing one or more images of an inspection region of an industrial machine acquired by an inspection system operating based on a first set of operating parameters. The inspection region includes...