US Patent Issued to Renishaw on Oct. 27 for "Ultrasound inspection probe and corresponding inspection method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,989, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Renishaw PLC (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).

"Ultrasound inspection probe and corresponding inspection method" was invented by John Charles Ould (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain), Thomas Phillip Handford (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain), Robert Toth (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain) and Christopher James Ratford (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound inspection probe is described for use with a coordinate positioning apparatus, such as a machine tool. The probe includes a probe body for mounting to a coordinate positioning apparatus and an elongat...