ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,452, issued on April 14, was assigned to Avante International Technology Inc. (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

"Pipeline integrity monitoring system (PIMS) for oil, gas and other pipelines" was invented by Kevin Kwong-Tai Chung (Princeton, N.J.), Albert Chung (Princeton, N.J.) and Yulin Huang (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for a pipeline system, may comprise: thickness sensors, vibration sensors, flow sensors, leak sensors and/or other sensors disposed on pipelines, controller processors coupled to the sensors to receive and geo-tag sensor data, communication devices for transmitting geo-tagged data, ...