US Patent Issued to Viking Discoveries on Sept. 8 for "Physics-informed structural health monitoring with reinforcement learning and autonomous inspection tasking" (California, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,440, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Viking Discoveries LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Physics-informed structural health monitoring with reinforcement learning and autonomous inspection tasking" was invented by Scott Robert Hansen (Irvine, Calif.), Louisa Marie Hansen (Irvine, Calif.) and Robert Edwin Hansen (Bigfork, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structural-health-monitoring system is disclosed for real-time detection and autonomous maintenance of physical structures. The system includes a sensor network comprising at least one strain gauge and one tri-axial accelerometer mounted on the structure to generate real-time sensor si...