ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,764, issued on July 15, was assigned to HIFI ENGINEERING INC. (Calgary, Canada).
"Methods and systems for tracking a pipeline inspection gauge" was invented by Seyed Ehsan Jalilian (Calgary, Canada), Mehri Owjimehr (Calgary, Canada), Arne Dankers (Calgary, Canada) and Yuhong Liu (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a method of determining a position of a pipeline inspection gauge (PIG) in a fluid conduit. While the PIG is moving through the fluid conduit, one or more sensors positioned along the fluid conduit are used to detect one or more signals. Parameter data is extracted from the detected one or mor...