ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,286, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Monitoring and early warning method for gas gate station and internet of things system thereof" was invented by Zehua Shao (Chengdu, China), Bin Liu (Chengdu, China), Yongzeng Liang (Chengdu, China), Lei Zhang (Chengdu, China) and Xiaojun Wei (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is monitoring and early warning method for gas gate station and IoT system thereof. The method comprises: obtaining a downstream user feature and historical warning data corresponding to the gas gate station; determining, based on the downst...