ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,952, issued on May 19, was assigned to FRAMATOME (Courbevoie, France).
"Method and electronic device for assisting with surveillance of an element of a nuclear reactor, associated computer and associated system" was invented by Franck Grember (Lyons, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assisting with surveillance of an element of a nuclear reactor, said method being implemented by an electronic device, comprising the steps of training an artificial-intelligence algorithm; acquiring an image of the element; estimating, on the basis of the image and via the artificial-intelligence algorithm, whether a fault is present in ...