US Patent Issued to Board of Supervisors of Louisana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College on June 23 for "Fatigue assessment" (Louisiana, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,346, issued on June 23, was assigned to Board of Supervisors of Louisana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, La.).

"Fatigue assessment" was invented by Michael M. Khonsari (Baton Rouge, La.) and Behnam Hajshirmohamadi (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of evaluating mechanical fatigue using nondestructive techniques are described herein. Such techniques involve mechanically testing a component to establish a relationship between some measure of actuation and a temperature profile produced during the testing. Measurements from a separate external heating test that generates a similar tem...