ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,290, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Megger Germany GmbH (Baunach, Germany).

"Method for determining and/or analyzing a leak in a line for liquid media, in particular a water line" was invented by Michael Hofmann (Braunach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a leak in a line for fluid media can include providing at least one noise and/or frequency logger comprising a sensor, and a computing unit, attaching the noise and/or frequency logger to the line or to fittings thereof, measuring noise on the line via the sensor and determining a noise level by means of a frequency analysis of the noise level. The...