ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,051, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Celeros Flow Technology LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for providing surge relief" was invented by Christopher Lee (Cypress, Texas) and Mark Lewandowski (Tomball, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure pertains to a system configured to protect flows in piping systems using minimal spare components. Some embodiments may provide: a first piping subsystem configured to receive a portion of the input flow; a second piping subsystem configured to receive the portion of the input flow by substituting for the first subsystem; a test subsystem configured to detect whe...