ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,211, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Methods, internet of things systems, and storage media for sampling and monitoring smart gas pipelines" was invented by Zehua Shao (Chengdu, China), Yong Li (Chengdu, China), Junyan Zhou (Chengdu, China) and Feng Wang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an IoT system, a method, and a storage medium for sampling and monitoring a smart gas pipeline. The method is executed by a government safety monitoring and management platform, and includes: obtaining pipeline sensing data; determining a sampling parameter base...