US Patent Issued to The Steelastic on Aug. 11 for "Defect detection of extruded strip" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,473, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Steelastic Co. LLC (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio).

"Defect detection of extruded strip" was invented by Jacob James Mudger (Salem, Ohio) and Daniel Duane Hawk (Akron, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A defect detection system and method for detecting the presence of a defect in an extruded strip can include various elements. In examples, a thermal imagining sensor is used to detect a plurality of surface temperatures on a surface of the extruded strip. A processing unit is configured to generate a thermal map of an area of the surface of extruded strip. The processing unit is further configured ...