US Patent Issued to Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute on Oct. 7 for "Safety measuring device and safety evaluation method for large-diameter pipeline" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,971, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute (Nanjing, China).

"Safety measuring device and safety evaluation method for large-diameter pipeline" was invented by Xiangqian Fan (Nanjing, China), Jun Lu (Nanjing, China) and Lei Zhang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety measuring device for large diameter pipes includes an abutment, a rotating platform, a full-angle laser distance measuring device, a level meter, full-angle laser distance measuring device includes dial, a pointer, and a laser distance meter; the bending degree measuring device includes a high power thruster, fiber optic ...