ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,324, issued on June 24, was assigned to CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Method for determining smart gas work order set allocation plan and internet of things system thereof" was invented by Zehua Shao (Chengdu, China), Junyan Zhou (Chengdu, China), Guanghua Huang (Chengdu, China) and Lei Zhang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an Internet of Things system for determining a smart gas work order set allocation plan. The method includes: obtaining relevant data of the gas device, and uploading the relevant data to a smart gas managem...