ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,107, issued on April 7, was assigned to Triad National Security LLC (Los Alamos, Texas).

"Method for nondestructive evaluation using ultrasonic excitation and rotation of the inspection object or inspection system" was invented by Ian Thomas Cummings (Los Alamos, N.M.), Adam Joseph Wachtor (Los Alamos, N.M.), Eric Brian Flynn (Los Alamos, N.M.) and Erica Marie Jacobson (Los Alamos, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide for nondestructive defect detection. Example embodiments provide for generating one or more excitation signals using one or more excitation devices coupled to a device under inspection, scanning an ex...