ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,495, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Methods and internet of things (IoT) systems for gas meter management based on smart gas platforms" was invented by Zehua Shao (Chengdu, China), Yong Li (Chengdu, China), Junyan Zhou (Chengdu, China) and Feng Wang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and Internet of Things (IoT) systems for gas meter management based on a smart gas platform are provided. The method is implemented based on a smart gas device management platform of the IoT system for smart gas meter management, and the method comprises: obtaining tracea...