ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,333, issued on July 22, was assigned to CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Method for determining a monitoring scheme and safety monitoring internet of things systems of pipe network reliability degree based on smart gas" was invented by Zehua Shao (Chengdu, China), Bin Liu (Chengdu, China), Yaqiang Quan (Chengdu, China), Xiaojun Wei (Chengdu, China) and Yongzeng Liang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for determining a monitoring scheme based on smart gas, wherein the method is executed by an smart gas pipe network safety management plat...