US Patent Issued to Latency on April 15 for "Systems, methods, and media for generating alerts of water hammer events in steam pipes" (American, Maltese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,638, issued on April 15, was assigned to Latency LLC (Hingham, Mass.).

"Systems, methods, and media for generating alerts of water hammer events in steam pipes" was invented by Peter Owens (Hingham, Mass.) and David Micallef (Rabat, Malta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanism, which can include systems, methods, and media, for generating an alert of a water hammer event in a steam pipe are provided, the mechanisms comprising: sampling an accelerometer coupled to a steam pipe to provide accelerometer data; determining that the accelerometer data meets or exceeds a threshold; and generating an alert that a water hammer event has occu...