ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,377, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SYNOVATE Ltd. (Harrogate, Great Britain).
"Leak detection" was invented by Simon John Langdale (Leeds, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application describes a method of determining a leak location in a pipeline, comprising processing captured image data associated with at least one image captured from within a pipeline to identify a change in temperature of an interior surface of the pipeline responsive to a change in temperature of a fluid leaking from the pipeline to determine a leak location in the pipeline. A system and apparatus for determining a leak location in a...