ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,263, issued on July 21, was assigned to KAMSTRUP A/S (Skanderborg, Denmark).
"Method for acoustic leak detection in a district heat conduction network" was invented by Sune Hoveroust Dupont (Skanderborg, Denmark) and Morten Karstoft Rasmussen (Skanderborg, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method serves the purpose of the acoustic leak detection in a district heating supply network (3), in which a heat transfer medium is circulated between a combined heat and power plant (1) and points of use (5). The points of use (5) have heat meters (10), which operate with ultrasonic flow meters, which operate with ultrasonic flow meters...