ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,595, issued on May 19, was assigned to Rosen IP AG (Stans, Switzerland).

"Method for determining the geometry of a defect and for determining a load limit" was invented by Andrey Danilov (Lingen, Germany) and Johannes Palmer (Lingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for determining the geometry of multiple defects in a magnetizable object using a reference data record of the object, comprising determining an initial defect geometry as starting defect geometry, determining a first MFL prediction data record as starting prediction data record on the basis of the starting defect geometry, and iteratively adapting the startin...