US Patent Issued to Solinas Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Identifying material used in water pipes using acoustic wave analysis" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,209, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Solinas Technologies Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Identifying material used in water pipes using acoustic wave analysis" was invented by Marc Bracken (Oakville, Canada), Antonio Laranjo Da Costa (Oakville, Canada), William Philip Maize (Oakville, Canada) and Declan Bracken (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying a material of a water pipe buried below ground is provided. The method includes generating controlled vibrations in the water pipe using a vibration exciter, and detecting a vibration response associated with the water pipe in response to the controlled vibr...