US Patent Issued to NIBCO on Oct. 27 for "Plumbing monitoring system with progressive maintenance and enhancement assistance" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,916, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NIBCO Inc. (Elkhart, Ind.).

"Plumbing monitoring system with progressive maintenance and enhancement assistance" was invented by Christopher W. Mason (Granger, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water supply monitoring system in connection with a supply line includes sensors configured to detect supply properties, including a temperature, flow rate, and/or a pressure in the supply line. A controller receives the supply properties from the sensors and compares the supply properties to detection metrics. In response to a comparison of the supply properties relative to the detection metrics, th...