ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,220, issued on March 18, was assigned to SYRINIX LTD (Norfolk, Great Britain).

"Method and system for anomaly detection for a pumped pipeline" was invented by Paul Linford (Hethel, Great Britain), Benjamin Smither (Hethel, Great Britain) and Alexander Forbes (Hethel, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for detecting an anomaly in a pumped pipeline is disclosed. A data stream is received over time on operation of the pump and pump start and pump stop event data is obtained from the data stream. For each pair in time of a pump start event and preceding pump stop event in the data stream flow is calculated ...