ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,208, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to KAMSTRUP A/S (Skanderborg, Denmark).
"System and method for acoustic leakage detection by use of an ultrasonic flow meter" was invented by Mick Althoff Kristensen (Skanderborg, Denmark) and Sune Hoveroust Dupont (Skanderborg, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for acoustic leakage detection in a fluid pipe network (1) uses at least one ultrasonic flow meter (13) installed at a pipe (15, 17). The pipe connects a consumer site (3) to the fluid pipe network. The method includes detecting at least one sound wave traveling along the pipe and/or along fluid within the pipe from a sound s...