ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,876, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Celeros Flow Technology LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring a valve" was invented by Raul Almazan (Charlotte, N.C.), John Barrows (Charlotte, N.C.) and Pedro Flores-Castillo (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may be configured to monitor surge relief. Some embodiments may: provide a surge relief valve; provide a set of instruments coupled to the surge relief valve and configured to output first and second data based on a prediction, each of the first and second data having a quality level satisfying a first criterion; provide a computer; and provide a ...