US Patent Issued to Hatch on Aug. 11 for "Systems, methods and apparatus for acousto-ultrasonic assessment of metallurgical vessels" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,485, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hatch Ltd. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Systems, methods and apparatus for acousto-ultrasonic assessment of metallurgical vessels" was invented by Afshin Sadri (Vaughan, Canada), Wai Lai Winnie Ying (Oakville, Canada) and William Watson (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for inspecting metallurgical furnace walls. A method may comprise receiving a plurality of time domain signals from one or more sensors generated by a reflected stress wave induced by an impactor impacting the metallurgical vessel wall at a predetermined distance from an impact point, converting th...