US Patent Issued to TIANJIN UNIVERSITY on Sept. 23 for "Pipeline spanning or settlement bending detection device and method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,332, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TIANJIN UNIVERSITY (Tianjin, China).

"Pipeline spanning or settlement bending detection device and method" was invented by Xinjing Huang (Tianjin, China), Jinshuo Ma (Tianjin, China) and Jinyu Ma (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a pipeline spanning or settlement bending detection device and method, relating to the field of pipeline curvature measurement technology, to solve the problem that the curvature of a pipeline made of a composite material cannot be detected using the related art. The device includes a watertight spherical shell and multiple detectors. For ea...