Patent 10052667 was granted and assigned to Dominion Engineering, Inc. on August, 2018 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of cleaning a vessel having deposits on an interior surface includes removably bonding an ultrasonic transducer to an external wall of the vessel and using the ultrasonic transducer to produce ultrasonic energy coupled into the vessel wall such that at least a portion of the ultrasonic energy is transmitted to the interior surface.