US Patent Issued to Industrial Technology Research Institute on Dec. 2 for "Underground pipe leak detection system and method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,146, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Underground pipe leak detection system and method" was invented by Sheng-Cyuan Fan (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Che-Wei Yeh (New Taipei, Taiwan), Wun-Sheng Huang (Miaoli County, Taiwan), Long He (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chien-Cheng Chu (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsin-Yu Chiu (Taipei, Taiwan), Feng-Jie Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan) and Fu-Te Hsu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an underground pipe leak detection system, including a sensing device, a storage device, and a processing device. The sensing device is used for collecting a voice s...