US Patent Issued to University of Maryland, College Park, Diakont Advanced Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Systems, devices, and methods for in situ pipe repair" (Maryland, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,172, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.) and Diakont Advanced Technologies Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for in situ pipe repair" was invented by Liangbing Hu (Rockville, Md.), Paul Albertus (Takoma Park, Md.), Qi Dong (Newton, Mass.), Chengwei Wang (College Park, Md.) and Edward Petit de Mange (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for in situ repair of a metal pipe has a pipe repair head, an actuation assembly, an electrical power supply, and a controller. The pipe repair head can have an arm extending along a radiation direction of...