ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,507, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).

"Method of detecting and locating a fluid leak" was invented by Henri Teboulle (Rueil Malmaison, France) and Abbas Sabraoui (Rueil Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting and locating a leak, the method comprising, for each ultrasonic fluid meter, the following steps of, acquiring or evaluating noise levels, each associated with a respective different detection period, each noise level being representative of the level of a leakage noise signal contained in the measurement samples coming from measurements ta...