ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,009, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cokebusters Ltd. (Chester, Great Britain).
"Apparatus for tracking a pig" was invented by John Phipps (Chester, Great Britain), Jakub Wnuk (Sztum, Poland) and Lukasz Kremski (Chester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus for tracking a pig travelling inside a tubular object. The apparatus includes a sensor arrangement including at least one position sensor configured to detect a passage of the pig travelling inside the tubular object and a tracking device. The tracking device is configured to: process the detected passage of the pig from a run of the pig t...