ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,094, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NDT Global Corporate Ltd. (Dublin).
"Determination of peaking of pipes" was invented by Gerhard Kopp (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Michael Frank (Karlsdorf-Neuthard, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for determining the seam peaking of a pipeline, measured values of the internal pipe geometry are recorded adjacent to a sought point P of the seam peaking, at which the measurement of meaningful measured values is difficult or impossible due to a weld seam present there, and a trend is determined from the measured values and a value of the seam peaking is determined on the basis of the...