ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,968, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MITSUBISHI SHIPBUILDING Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Corrosion management system, estimation method, and program" was invented by Shunsaku Matsumoto (Tokyo), Tadashi Sugimura (Tokyo), Soichiro Inoue (Yokohama, Japan), Shin Terada (Yokohama, Japan) and Satoshi Miyazaki (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a corrosion management system including: a measurement data acquisition unit that acquires measurement data indicating the corrosion state of a first portion of a structure which is an evaluation target; and a corrosion estimation unit that estimates the corrosion s...