ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,708, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Method and internet of things (IoT) system for corrosion supervision of gas pipeline" was invented by Zehua Shao (Chengdu, China), Yuefei Wu (Chengdu, China), Junyan Zhou (Chengdu, China), Yaqiang Quan (Chengdu, China) and Xiaojun Wei (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an Internet of Things system for corrosion supervision of a gas pipeline are provided. The method includes: obtaining inspection data of a gas pipeline in a gas pipeline network; constructing a first pipeline diagram of the gas pipeline network b...