ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,207, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Seal Water Technology Ltd. (Snodland, Great Britain).

"Shock wave signal generator and methods of use thereof" was invented by William Smith (Moggill, Australia), Ying Li (Moggill, Australia) and Duncan Hywel-Evans (Mundoolun, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shock wave signal generator is disclosed together with a system and methods of using the shock wave signal generator to identify and locate anomalies in a fluid medium. In one form, the shock wave signal generator includes a striker and a resonator operatively associated with a fluid medium. The resonator is configured to resonate ...