ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,104, issued on April 7, was assigned to GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangzhou, China).

"Device and method for detecting fitting degree of connecting rod bushing by ultrasonic wave" was invented by Guan Wang (Guangzhou, China), Jieyu Zhu (Guangzhou, China), Peilin Su (Guangzhou, China), Guohua Chen (Guangzhou, China), Huisheng Jiao (Guangzhou, China) and Zanfeng Liu (Sihui, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a device and method for detecting a fitting degree of a connecting rod bushing by an ultrasonic wave. A big head hole fixture comprises multiple positioning blocks, and the positioning blocks in a transverse...