US Patent Issued to ECLIPSE SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTS on July 28 for "Method and apparatus for ultrasonic testing using temporal sparse firing" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,271, issued on July 28, was assigned to ECLIPSE SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTS INC. (Sherwood Park, Canada).

"Method and apparatus for ultrasonic testing using temporal sparse firing" was invented by Mike Matheson (Owen Sound, Canada), Jonathan Lesage (Hamilton, Canada) and Mohammad Marvasti (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and apparatus for ultrasonic testing using TSF (Temporal Sparse Firing). For each position of a plurality of positions of a phased array ultrasonic probe, an ultrasonic wave is transmitted into an object using a defined subset of transducer elements and propagation of the ultrasonic wave...