ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,874, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Methods and internet of things (IoT) systems for monitoring reliability of smart gas pipeline network" was invented by Zehua Shao (Chengdu, China), Haitang Xiang (Chengdu, China) and Yaqiang Quan (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for monitoring reliability of a smart gas pipeline network are provided. The method may be implemented based on a smart gas safety management platform of an Internet of Things (IoT) system for monitoring reliability of a smart gas pipeline network. The method may include: obtaining a relia...