US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION on June 16 for "Through-transmission eddy current system for inline inspection of power source electrodes" (Michigan, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,098, issued on June 16, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit) and IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Ames, Iowa).

"Through-transmission eddy current system for inline inspection of power source electrodes" was invented by Megan E. McGovern (Detroit), Robin James (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Shaomao Xu (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Dmitriy Bruder (Clinton Township, Mich.) and Yuan Ji (Chesterfield, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eddy current non-destructive evaluation system for an electrode film material includes: at least one control module configured to generate a transmission signal; and a fir...