US Patent Issued to Clow Valve Co. division of McWane on March 3 for "Remote monitoring of water distribution system" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,748, issued on March 3, was assigned to Clow Valve Co. division of McWane Inc. (Carrollton, Texas).

"Remote monitoring of water distribution system" was invented by Kelly Hawkins (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid monitoring system includes a remote measurement device located at a location of the fire hydrant that is in contact with water provided by a water main. The remote measurement device has sensors that measure characteristics of the water, energy characteristics and/or acoustic vibrations in the water and a communication interface that transmits measured information to a communication network device that ma...