ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,331, issued on June 23.
"Acousto-optical transducer and method for pipeline leak detection, localization and quantification" was invented by Danilo Fernandes Gomes (Curitiba, Brazil), Jean Carlos Cardozo Da Silva (Curitiba, Brazil), Carla De Araujo Ferreira Melo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Guilherme Heim Weber (Curitiba, Brazil), Eduardo Luis Gerla Rodino (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Cicero Martelli (Curitiba, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is in the field of technologies applied to fluid transporting pipelines and, more specifically, it refers to an acousto-optical transducer and a method capable of sensin...