ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,048, issued on May 27, was assigned to CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Methods and systems for regulating pipeline network maintenance based on a smart gas internet of things (IoT)" was invented by Zehua Shao (Chengdu, China), Yong Li (Chengdu, China) and Lei He (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and a system for regulating pipeline network maintenance based on a smart gas Internet of Things (IoT). The method includes obtaining gas data of at least one faulty pipeline, generating at least one set of candidate maintenance schemes based on the at least one...