US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Nov. 3 for "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for evaluating burn tests" (South Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,199, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems, apparatuses, and methods for evaluating burn tests" was invented by Joseph J. Kreitle (Summerville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for evaluating a burn test includes using an optical sensor system to detect an infrared reflection of a flame on a test piece and using a computer to capture initiation of fire damage to the test piece using the infrared reflection and to capture the fire damage though cessation of the fire damage using the infrared reflection."

The patent was filed on June 23, 2023, under Application No. 18/340,276...