US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on April 21 for "Accelerated higher resolution industrial radiography" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,578, issued on April 21, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Accelerated higher resolution industrial radiography" was invented by Lucas Determan (Maple Grove, Minn.), Joseph Schlecht (Edina, Minn.) and Eric Ferley (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example industrial radiography systems allow for generation of higher resolution 2D radiographs using an accelerated higher resolution radiograph process. The accelerated higher resolution radiograph process uses pixel (e.g., grayscale) values from one or more lower resolution 2D radiographs to set pixel values for a first portion of higher resolution rad...