US Patent Issued to PIONEER LINING TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 3 for "Methods of joining or repairing lined pipes and associated apparatus" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,904, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PIONEER LINING TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Glasgow, Great Britain).

"Methods of joining or repairing lined pipes and associated apparatus" was invented by Stephen Barnes (Milngavie, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method creates a weld between a liner of a section of lined pipe and an electrofusion fitting. The fitting has at least one heating element, which is suitably disposed on or in an outer surface of the electrofusion fitting and is electrically isolated from an inner surface of the fitting. The method includes locating an end of the electrofusion fitting within an end of the section o...