US Patent Issued to University of South Carolina on Sept. 23 for "Short-term AE monitoring to identifying ASR progression in concrete structures" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,407, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to University of South Carolina (Columbia, S.C.).

"Short-term AE monitoring to identifying ASR progression in concrete structures" was invented by Paul Ziehl (Irmo, S.C.) and Vafa Soltangharaei (Columbia, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods based on acoustic emission (AE) technology to monitor a concrete structure for a short interval and, based on signals acquired, estimate Alkali-silica reaction (ASR) progression status in the structure remotely and efficiently without halting any serviceability and operational activities of the structure, knowing the A...