ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,426, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NEXANS (Courbevoie, France).
"Method for inspecting surfaces and interfaces of high voltage cable components" was invented by Espen Doedens (Halden, Norway) and Endre Verlo Nes (Lier, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system is provided for inspecting surfaces and/or interfaces of high voltage and/or medium voltage cable components. The method includes capturing and storing a set of 3-dimensional, 3D, surface geometry measurement data of an area of interest of a surface of the cable or cable component by moving a 3D surface scanner about the cable over the area of interest. T...