US Patent Issued to PITCO on Oct. 7 for "Weld seam finding and marking systems and methods for tubular goods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,132, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PITCO LLC (Houston).

"Weld seam finding and marking systems and methods for tubular goods" was invented by Danny Uselton (Spring, Texas) and John Zeigler (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Longitudinally welded tubular member inspection and marking systems and methods. One system includes a longitudinal weld seam detection assembly and a marking assembly configured to be positioned about a longitudinally welded tubular member in an inspection position. The detection assembly includes a magnetic flux generator including a flux return and one or more sensors supported by the flux ...