US Patent Issued to Hitachi GE Vernova Nuclear Energy Ltd . on April 21 for "Ultrasonic inspection apparatus and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,604, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hitachi GE Vernova Nuclear Energy Ltd . (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Ultrasonic inspection apparatus and method" was invented by Kaname Saga (Tokyo), So Kitazawa (Tokyo), Akihiko Hirano (Hitachi, Japan), Yoshizumi Fukuhara (Hitachi, Japan) and Junta Yamada (Hitachi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic inspection apparatus includes a control device 12 that outputs a pulse signal for making an ultrasonic probe 11A transmit an ultrasonic wave to the ultrasonic probe 11A and that is supplied with a waveform signal obtained by converting the received ultrasonic wave from an ultrasonic probe 1...