ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,903, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Method and internet of things (IoT) system for managing and controlling risk in smart gas pipeline network by combining ultrasonic flowmeter" was invented by Zehua Shao (Chengdu, China), Bin Liu (Chengdu, China), Lei Zhang (Chengdu, China) and Yuefei Wu (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method and an Internet of Things system for managing and controlling a risk in a smart gas pipeline network by combining an ultrasonic flowmeter. The method includes: acquiring distributed...