US Patent Issued to Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) on March 17 for "Staggered magnet array (SMA) based electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT)" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,311, issued on March 17, was assigned to Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) (Chennai, India).

"Staggered magnet array (SMA) based electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT)" was invented by Krishnan Balasubramanian (Chennai, India) and Siddharth Shankar (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A staggered magnet array (SMA) based electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) system and method for controlling the direction of the ultrasonic waves in the electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) using staggered magnet array (SMA) configurations, is disclosed herein. The EMAT device proposed herein comprises at leas...