US Patent Issued to INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETROLEO on May 6 for "Non-intrusive integral system for pipelines monitoring in real time" (Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,356, issued on May 6, was assigned to INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETROLEO (Mexico City).

"Non-intrusive integral system for pipelines monitoring in real time" was invented by Sergiy Sadovnychiy (Mexico City), Juan Manuel Lopez Carreto (Mexico City), Edgar Alberto Canul Garcia (Mexico City), Marco Antonio Hernandez Rojo (Mexico City), Fernando Real Gomez (Mexico City), Samuel Eduardo Moya Ochoa (Mexico City) and Volodymyr Ponomaryov (Mexico City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure integrates several methodologies for the detection and location of leaks in pipelines that transport hydrocarbons in liquid or gaseous phase. ...