US Patent Issued to Pure Technologies U.S. on March 25 for "Apparatus for inspecting the condition of the pipewall of a pipeline" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,359, issued on March 25, was assigned to Pure Technologies U.S. Inc. (Columbia, Md.).

"Apparatus for inspecting the condition of the pipewall of a pipeline" was invented by Jeffrey Chak-Fai Kwan (Calgary, Canada), Hongwei Zhang (Calgary, Canada), Ran Wu (Calgary, Canada) and Xiangjie Kong (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a pipeline inspection apparatus and an ultrasonic module for use in a pipeline inspection apparatus, the module comprising: ultrasonic transducers configured to assess the condition of a pipeline; and an elongate body including a front end and a rear end opposed to the front end, the...