G01N 29/262
By electronic orientation or focusing
Official title: {by electronic orientation or focusing, e.g. with phased arrays (phased arrays per se G10K11/34)}
G01N29/262 (By electronic orientation or focusing) appears on 728 US grants and 786 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01N- Granted patents
- 728
- Published applications
- 786
- Assignees
- 386
- Inventors
- 1,607
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 7 | 0 |
| 1980 | 7 | 0 |
| 1981 | 10 | 0 |
| 1982 | 7 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 6 | 0 |
| 1985 | 11 | 0 |
| 1986 | 6 | 0 |
| 1987 | 2 | 0 |
| 1988 | 4 | 0 |
| 1989 | 3 | 0 |
| 1990 | 3 | 0 |
| 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 2 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 4 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 7 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 1 |
| 2002 | 5 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 3 |
| 2004 | 6 | 6 |
| 2005 | 4 | 13 |
| 2006 | 8 | 8 |
| 2007 | 7 | 18 |
| 2008 | 7 | 10 |
| 2009 | 8 | 21 |
| 2010 | 17 | 23 |
| 2011 | 16 | 33 |
| 2012 | 19 | 25 |
| 2013 | 32 | 41 |
| 2014 | 21 | 36 |
| 2015 | 33 | 38 |
| 2016 | 32 | 47 |
| 2017 | 32 | 47 |
| 2018 | 37 | 59 |
| 2019 | 42 | 40 |
| 2020 | 51 | 41 |
| 2021 | 39 | 65 |
| 2022 | 51 | 60 |
| 2023 | 33 | 38 |
| 2024 | 56 | 45 |
| 2025 | 43 | 35 |
| 2026 | 25 | 31 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Multi-element electromagnetic acoustic transducer for guided wave generation and detection1 Sep 2026US 12,725,603 B2Ecole De Technologie Superieure
- Acoustic influence map based flaw size imaging25 Aug 2026US 12,716,871 B2Evident Canada, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for determining the set of focal laws of a plurality of focal points located in a three-dimensional test object in the presence of a coupling medium18 Aug 2026US 12,710,398 B2Consejo Superior De Investigaciones CientíFicas (Csic) M
- Delay line and method for ultrasonic inspection of a workpiece18 Aug 2026US 12,710,400 B2The Boeing Company
- Systems, methods, and apparatus for reporting inspection data7 Jul 2026US 12,674,781 B2Gecko Robotics, Inc.
- Robot for performing non-destructive evaluation of a weld1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298877 A1BAE SYSTEMS plc
- Image-to-image translation for acoustic inspection1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298878 A1Evident Canada, Inc.
- Compressive sensing for phased-array acoustic inspection1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298883 A1Evident Canada, Inc.
- Systems and methods for determining the ultrasonic testing (ut) testability of defects in a weld17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276595 A1Baker Hughes Holdings LLC
- Electromagnetic acoustic transducer (emat) for inspection17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276599 A1Evident Canada, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Front surface matched piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer array with wide field of view190US 4,211,948 AGeneral Electric Company · 1980
- Ultrasonic defect detection system160US 6,382,028 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2002
- Beamforming method, measurement and imaging instruments, and communication instruments152US 10,624,612 B2Chikayoshi SUMI · 2020
- Transmit beamformer with frequency dependent focus128US 5,608,690 AAcuson Corporation · 1997
- Active damage interrogation method for structural health monitoring111US 6,006,163 AMcDonnell Douglas Corporation · 1999