ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,437, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Lubricator control system" was invented by Xue Jun Wen (Shanghai), Yilei Ji (Shanghai), Kai Gu (Shanghai), Sheng Tao (Changshu City, China) and Huiqi Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lubricator control system includes a lubricator, an Internet-of-things platform, and an application server. The lubricator is configured to communicate with the application server in a long-distance and low-power consumption wireless communication mode, the lubricator is configured to communicate with the Internet-of-things platform via 5G-NB-IoT communication an...