ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,803, issued on May 5, was assigned to National Bank of Canada (Montreal).

"System and method for automated acquisition and analysis of electromagnetic testing data" was invented by Philippe MacKay (Quebec, Canada), Vincent Gaudreault (Levis, Canada), Florian Hardy (Lac-Sergent, Canada) and Marco Michele Sisto (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying indications in an object via non-destructive testing using inspection equipment comprising a probe is described. The method includes: recording test data corresponding to a signal measurement acquired by the probe; processing the test data using a first analys...