US Patent Issued to Baylor University on May 5 for "System and method for real-time visualization of foreign objects within a material" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,805, issued on May 5, was assigned to Baylor University (Waco, Texas).

"System and method for real-time visualization of foreign objects within a material" was invented by David A. Jack (Waco, Texas), Nathaniel J. Blackman (Hewitt, Texas) and Benjamin M. Blandford (Waco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system and method for real-time visualization of a material during ultrasonic non-destructive testing. The system is capable of producing A-scans, B-scans, and C-scans of the test object and automatically highlighting potential foreign objects within the test object based on the scan data. The syste...