US Patent Issued to Verderg on July 7 for "Pipe testing apparatus and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,732, issued on July 7, was assigned to Verderg Ltd. (Woking Surrey, Great Britain).

"Pipe testing apparatus and method" was invented by Peter Roberts (Woking, Great Britain), Richard Stuart (Woking, Great Britain) and Robert Kettle (Woking, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for testing rings cut from pipes, comprising: a plurality of test chamber sections which, when placed together, define a test chamber for receiving the ring to be tested, the test chamber sections comprising at least a first test chamber section defining a first inner face of the test chamber and a second test chamber section defining an opp...