ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,443, issued on April 14, was assigned to CHANGZHOU UNIVERSITY (Changzhou, China).

"Natural gas pipelines, methods for filling an explosion suppression component, and methods for an explosion suppression experiment" was invented by Hong Ji (Changzhou, China), Ting Wang (Changzhou, China), Ke Yang (Changzhou, China), Juncheng Jiang (Changzhou, China), Zhixiang Xing (Changzhou, China) and Shijie Fan (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides natural gas pipelines, methods for filling an explosion suppression component, and methods for an explosion suppression experiment. The natural gas pipeline ma...