ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,973, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to BODUS GMBH (Aarau, Switzerland).

"System for curing and/or inspecting a pipeline lining and method for curing and/or inspecting a pipeline lining" was invented by Daniel Boller (Aarau, Switzerland), Klaus Werner (Aarau, Switzerland) and Joao Carlos Gomes Cancio (Aarau, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system (10) for curing and/or inspecting a pipeline lining (30) positioned in a pipeline (20), the pipeline lining (30) comprising an outer plastics material layer and an inner fiber composite layer, the fiber composite layer comprising a plastics material whic...