US Patent Issued to ECOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPERIEURE on Sept. 1 for "Multi-element electromagnetic acoustic transducer for guided wave generation and detection" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,603, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ECOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPERIEURE (Montreal).

"Multi-element electromagnetic acoustic transducer for guided wave generation and detection" was invented by Pierre Belanger (Montreal) and Aurelien Thon (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an electromagnetic acoustic transducer comprising a waveguide having a surface, and a plurality of spaced elements arranged in an array on the surface of the waveguide. Each element of the plurality of elements comprises a magnet and a coil wound around the magnet. A direction of magnetization of the plurality of elements alternating from one...