ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,773, issued on July 1, was assigned to ATAM Group Ltd. (Great Yarmouth, Great Britain).

"Method for cleaning the inside of pipework" was invented by Mark Loades (Great Yarmouth, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of cleaning the inside of a pipework includes selecting a section of the pipework to be cleaned and determining a hold point of the pipework. A cleaning apparatus is inserted into an entry point of the pipework section, the apparatus being coupled to a fluid supply and equipped to blow the fluid along the pipework section from the first or last hold point to the entry point. The apparatus further includes a...