ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,002, issued on July 15, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Low temperature pipe system testing" was invented by Parthasarathy Iyengar (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of testing a pipe system with a testing apparatus is disclosed including a container, a cooling chamber in the container, and a cold head in the cooling chamber. The method includes loading the pipe system into the container; cooling a fluid, such as Helium gas, in the cooling chamber with the cold head to generate a cooled fluid; feeding the cooled fluid into the pipe system in the container; and taking a te...