US Patent Issued to MAGNA INTERNATIONAL on May 12 for "Testing of weld joints" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,346, issued on May 12, was assigned to MAGNA INTERNATIONAL INC. (Aurora, Canada).

"Testing of weld joints" was invented by Eric deNijs (Toronto), Pavlo Penner (Brampton, Canada), Patrick Henri (Ajax, Canada), Jeff Demelo (Oro Station, Canada) and Mark Bonello (Brampton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of testing a weld joint includes: preparing a part that includes at least one weld joint which joins at least two metal components with one another; machining at least one hole in the at least one weld joint; inserting, into the at least one port hole, a probe that includes a mirror attached to a camera; and reflecting an ...