US Patent Issued to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION, CENTER FOR ADVANCED META-MATERIALS on May 19 for "Apparatus for measuring height of foreign substance in pipe" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,599, issued on May 19, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea) and CENTER FOR ADVANCED META-MATERIALS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus for measuring height of foreign substance in pipe" was invented by Chunguang Piao (Seoul, South Korea), Jeseung Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Yoonyoung Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a measuring device for measuring the height of a foreign object in a pipe comprising an ultrasound transmission unit including an ultrasound generator disposed in a first area of an outer surface of a pipe throu...