US Patent Issued to Pure Technologies U.S. on May 27 for "Apparatus, systems and methods for pipeline condition assessment" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,595, issued on May 27, was assigned to Pure Technologies U.S. Inc. (Columbia, Md.).

"Apparatus, systems and methods for pipeline condition assessment" was invented by Angie Wu (Calgary, Canada), Hongwei Zhang (Calgary, Canada), Leo Liu (Calgary, Canada) and Jeffrey Chak-Fai Kwan (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, and methods for pipeline condition assessment using phased array ultrasonic transducers are disclosed. A sensing module for assessing pipeline condition comprises a body; and one or more phased array ultrasonic transducers (PAUTs) assembled on the surface of the body, each PAUT configured to ...