US Patent Issued to Evident Canada on Aug. 25 for "Acoustic influence map based flaw size imaging" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,871, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Evident Canada Inc. (Quebec, Canada).

"Acoustic influence map based flaw size imaging" was invented by Benoit Lepage (L'Ancienne-Lorette, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present subject matter provide techniques to accurately size flaws using acoustic inspection without expending significant computing resources and time. Examples described herein include techniques to convert amplitude-based inspection images, such as TFM or phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT) images, into sizing images based on Acoustic Influence Maps (AIMs)."

The patent was filed on Dec. 30, 2021, un...