ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,718, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Simmonds Precision Products Inc. (Vergennes, Vt.).
"Structural health monitoring of cryogenic fuel tanks" was invented by Peter J. Carini (Underhill, Vt.) and Yeasin Bhuiyan (Vergennes, Vt.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of health monitoring aircraft fuel system structures can include monitoring guided waves emitted by at least one guided wave emitter mounted to an inner hydrogen tank using at least one guided wave detector mounted to the inner hydrogen tank to monitor for a change versus a first baseline. The method can include monitoring guided waves emitted by at least one guided wa...