US Patent Issued to Sichuan University on March 25 for "System for monitoring internal corrosion of pipeline based on radio-frequency identification (RFID)" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,312, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sichuan University (Chengdu, China).

"System for monitoring internal corrosion of pipeline based on radio-frequency identification (RFID)" was invented by Jianbo Wu (Chengdu, China), Muchao Zhang (Chengdu, China) and Yawen Lan (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring internal corrosion of a pipeline based on radio-frequency identification (RFID), including a magnetizing device, a RFID tag sensor, and a reader. The magnetizing device is placed on the pipeline, and includes an armature, a first permanent magnet, a first pole shoe, a second permanent magnet and a se...