US Patent Issued to RTX on July 14 for "Eddy current probe assembly" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,979, issued on July 14, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Eddy current probe assembly" was invented by Zhong Ouyang (Glastonbury, Conn.), Kim B. Harmon (Bolton, Conn.) and Nigel D. Sawyers-Abbott (South Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eddy current probe assembly includes an eddy current probe extending along a center axis between and to a probe end and a distal end. The eddy current probe includes a first drive coil, a second drive coil, a first differential sense coil, and a second differential sense coil. Each of the first drive coil, the second drive coil, the first differential sense coil, and t...