ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,783, issued on May 5, was assigned to HITACHI GE VERNOVA NUCLEAR ENERGY LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).
"Pipe inspection method" was invented by Masahiro Miki (Tokyo), Kaname Saga (Tokyo), Yoshizumi Fukuhara (Hitachi, Japan), Junta Yamada (Hitachi, Japan), Michiaki Kurosaki (Hitachi, Japan) and Akihiko Hirano (Hitachi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pipe inspection method includes a first process of disposing an outside coil and a camera outside a thermal insulator, a second process of measuring the thickness of a pipe at a position of an ultrasonic sensor fixed in advance to an inside of the thermal insulator and to the outer surface o...