US Patent Issued to C2 Ventures on June 9 for "Methods for controlling and monitoring the degree of cathodic protection for metal structures and buried pipelines using coupled multielectrode sensors" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,973, issued on June 9, was assigned to C2 Ventures LLC (Broadview Heights, Ohio).

"Methods for controlling and monitoring the degree of cathodic protection for metal structures and buried pipelines using coupled multielectrode sensors" was invented by Xiaodong Sun Yang (Carson City, Nev.) and Lietai Yang (Carson City, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for using cathodic currents from individual electrodes of a multielectrode sensor to indicate how safely a pipe in soil, or a metal structure in an electrolyte, is cathodically protected. This method uses a simple parameter derived from the multielectrode sensor,...