ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,456, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Pipeline monitoring methods and internet of things based on smart gas pipeline network safety" was invented by Zehua Shao (Chengdu, China), Yaqiang Quan (Chengdu, China), Guanghua Huang (Chengdu, China), Haitang Xiang (Chengdu, China) and Yuefei Wu (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a pipeline monitoring method and Internet of Things system based on smart gas pipeline network safety. The method comprises: determining an inspection need of at least one gas pipeline segment based on pipeline ch...