ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,143, issued on June 17, was assigned to Pittway Sarl (Rolle, Switzerland).
"Method for micro-leakage detection in a fluid system and micro-leakage detection apparatus" was invented by Libor Seda (Chocen, Czech Republic), Jaroslav Svoma (Brno, Czech Republic) and Vaclav Prajzner (Brno, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for micro-leakage detection in a fluid system (10), preferably in a potable water system installed in a building (11), wherein the fluid system (10) has a fluid pipe (12) with a fluid valve (14), wherein a fluid flow through the fluid pipe (12) is stopped when the fluid valve (14) is closed, and where...