ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,502, issued on June 9, was assigned to PULSAR FZC (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates).
"Device for detection of defects in welded rail joints" was invented by Anatoly Slyadnev (Moscow) and Kirill Slyadnev (Moscow).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Non-destructive inspection of welded rail joints by ultrasound phase-array transducers in one device, precise positioning non-destructive inspection probes and moving the probes in longitudinal and transverse directions. Two scanners have ultrasound phase-array transducers and emission control unit for sequential or simultaneous inspection of welded joints using (i) two ultrasound phase-array transd...