US Patent Issued to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on June 2 for "Apparatus and methods for sensing mass accumulation degradation" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,809, issued on June 2, was assigned to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Apparatus and methods for sensing mass accumulation degradation" was invented by Armen Kvryan (Glendale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are apparatus and methods for sensing material degradation through sensing of mass accumulation. In some aspects, the apparatus and methods employ a material such as aerogel in conjunction with a force-sensing device such as a piezoelectric sensor placed in contact with or in proximity to a material under test. Degradation of the material under test is sensed by s...