US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 27 for "Ultrasonic inspection device and ultrasonic inspection unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,465, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Nagaoka, Japan).

"Ultrasonic inspection device and ultrasonic inspection unit" was invented by Tomohiro Koyama (Toyota, Japan), Ikuo Ihara (Nagaoka, Japan) and Shinji Wada (Nagaoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic inspection device includes: a longitudinal ultrasonic sensor configured to emit and receive a longitudinal ultrasonic wave; and an ultrasonic transducer unit made of metal and having the shape of a polyhedron. The ultrasonic transducer unit includes: an output s...