US Patent Issued to Triad National Security on June 2 for "Compensation of environmental and operational conditions in ultrasonic testing of structures" (Washington, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,864, issued on June 2, was assigned to Triad National Security LLC (Los Alamos, N.M.).

"Compensation of environmental and operational conditions in ultrasonic testing of structures" was invented by Alp Tugrul Findikoglu (Santa Fe, N.M.) and Taeho Ju (Newcastle, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-level compensation is used to compensate for environment and operational condition changes in ultrasonic testing of structures. A phase-shifting (time-domain) compensation is utilized to compensate for changes in operating temperature of a structure between acquisition of baseline and monitoring measurements. A frequency-filtering (f...