ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,052, issued on April 7, was assigned to ATEQ Corp (Livonia, Mich.), ATEQ (Les Clayes-sous-Bois, France) and ATEQ Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Apparatus and method for automatic leak detection" was invented by Guy D. Dewailly (White Bluff, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for automatic leak detection includes an adiabatic tank, an electronic pressure regulator in fluid communication with the adiabatic tank, and an electronic processor in electronic communication with the electronic pressure regulator. The electronic processor is to automatically determine an optimum adiabatic pressure based on an ambient atmosphe...