US Patent Issued to ACERGY FRANCE on March 17 for "Monitoring cable integrity during pipeline manufacture" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,603, issued on March 17, was assigned to ACERGY FRANCE SAS (Suresnes, France).

"Monitoring cable integrity during pipeline manufacture" was invented by Giovanni Aiello (Salins, France) and Guy Mencarelli (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When manufacturing a pipeline that carries an array of electrical cables, insulation resistance monitoring is performed by a monitoring unit that is connected to the cables of the array and is mounted to a leading end of the pipeline. The monitoring unit tests the cables cyclically in succession. Monitoring is performed on the cables after their application to the pipeline and while the pipeline...