ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,487, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC (Lynchburg, Va.).

"In-situ inspection method based on digital data model of weld" was invented by Ryan Scott Kitchen (Knoxville, Tenn.), Matthew Paul Levasseur (Lynchburg, Va.), Ryan Steven Wackerly (Barberton, Ohio) and Ross Pivovar (Lynchburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method inspects weld quality in-situ. The method obtains a plurality of sequenced images of an in-progress welding process and generates a multi-dimensional data input based on the plurality of sequenced images and/or one or more weld process control parameters. The parameters may inclu...