G01B 21/085
Using thermal means
Official title: {using thermal means}
G01B21/085 (Using thermal means) appears on 103 US grants and 103 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01B- Granted patents
- 103
- Published applications
- 103
- Assignees
- 108
- Inventors
- 292
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2025 | 6 | 3 |
| 2026 | 3 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- High-resolution sediment dynamics, water depth, and water velocity sensing system25 Aug 2026US 12,716,787 B2North Carolina State University
- Rolling mill facility19 May 2026US 12,629,737 B2Primetals Technologies Japan, Ltd.
- System and method for measuring the thickness of refractories19 May 2026US 12,631,447 B2Saint-Gobain do Brasil Produtos Industriais e Para Construção Ltda.
- Method for inspecting hollow glass products of glass product material25 Nov 2025US 12,482,087 B2Centrum Voor Technische Informatica B. V.
- Estimation device, estimation method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for thickness of precipitate4 Nov 2025US 12,460,927 B2Yokogawa Electric Corporation
- Method and system for calculating the depth of burial in power cables9 Oct 2025US 2025/0314489 A1Omnisens SA
- Cell test apparatus and method of manufacturing cell test apparatus3 Jul 2025US 2025/0216194 A1Samsung SDI.Co., Ltd.
- Material measurement system and method2 Jan 2025US 2025/0003734 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Utilizing thermal camera for detecting scale in pipelines1 Aug 2024US 2024/0255454 A1Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Method for detecting the convective heat transfer coefficient and the thickness of an interface25 Jul 2024US 2024/0247985 A1Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Pipeline monitoring systems125US 6,644,848 B1ABB Offshore Systems Limited · 2003
- Method and apparatus for quantitative nondestructive evaluation of metal airfoils using high resolution transient thermography63US 6,394,646 B1General Electric Company · 2002
- Measurement of hot container wall thickness58US 6,188,079 B1Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. · 2001
- Method and apparatus for nondestructive evaluation of insulative coating48US 7,409,313 B2General Electric Company · 2008
- Apparatus and method for the determination of grain size in thin films41US 6,191,855 B1Brown University Research Foundation · 2001