US Patent Issued to University of Cincinnati on Feb. 24 for "Non-invasive plumbing sensor system" (Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,466, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati).

"Non-invasive plumbing sensor system" was invented by Tao Li (Mason, Ohio), Steven G. Buchberger (Montgomery, Ohio), Chandrashekhar Choudhary (Cincinnati), Gagan Batra (San Jose, Calif.) and Toritseju Omaghomi (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring a plumbing system. A sensor module includes an acoustic flow sensor, and is configured to be attached to a water pipe. In response to receiving sound at the acoustic flow sensor above a threshold level, the sensor module wakes up from a low-power sleep mode and begins colle...