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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2022
Applicant:
Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;
Inventors:
Bashaer Abdullah Alhammad, Jubail, SA;
Hasan Ali Al-Hashmy, Dhahran, SA;
Abdulaziz Yahya Asiri, Dammam, SA;
Khalid Salem Al-Ghamdi, Dhahran, SA;
Assignee:
Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/265 (2006.01); G01N 29/06 (2006.01); G01N 29/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/069 (2013.01); G01N 29/265 (2013.01); G01N 29/4445 (2013.01); G01N 29/4481 (2013.01); G01N 2291/0289 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method perform automated detection, classification, and remediation of defects in a structure using ultrasound testing. The system includes an autoencoder is trained and configured to generate a de-noised UT scan image from a noisy UT scan image of a structure, a support vector machine configured to detect a defect in the structure, a convolutional neural network configured to classify the defect, and a remediation subsystem configured to remediate the defect. The method implements the system.