ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,665, issued on March 31, was assigned to PIONEER LINING TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Glasgow, Great Britain).
"Monitoring of lined pipeline" was invented by Stephen Barnes (Clydebank, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrity monitoring system for a lined pipeline is provided for monitoring the integrity of a polymer liner in a host pipe. Methods and apparatus are described by which a lined pipeline is provided with such an integrity monitoring system. Sensor cable is able to bridge a joint between sections of lined pipe, for example by routing the sensor cable across the joint via a channel in an electrofusion fitting or by con...