ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,643, issued on April 7, was assigned to Phyn LLC (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Liquid flow processing for plumbing systems" was invented by Ryan Yong Kim (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.) and Salil P. Banerjee (Lynchburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining leaks in a water distribution system using water devices within buildings. Pressure readings over time from two or more water devices. Egress readings and possibly other noise are removed from the pressure readings to isolate signals for leaks from outside of the buildings. Using the isolated signals, the location of the leak in the water distribution sys...