ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,596, issued on May 19, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).
"Device and method for managing resources for monitoring elongate structures" was invented by Bastien Chapuis (Tresserve, France) and Julien Albertini (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for managing resources for monitoring elongate structures that can serve as elastic waveguides are provided. The structure is instrumented with a plurality of transducers capable of acquiring signals measuring characteristic quantities of elastic waves being propagated in the structure, each transducer being coupled to...