US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Jan. 27 for "System and method for detecting faults in extended waveguides using a network of nodes" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,380, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"System and method for detecting faults in extended waveguides using a network of nodes" was invented by Bastien Chapuis (Tresserve, France), Julien Albertini (Paris) and Clement Fisher (Orsay, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and a device for detecting defects in an elongated structure able to act as an elastic-wave waveguide, the elongated structure being fitted with a plurality of transducers able to acquire measurement signals of characteristic quantities of elastic waves propagating in the elongated structu...