ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,675, issued on April 14, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Magnetic pipe sensor" was invented by Nobuo Okabe (Tokyo), Panayiotis Kiliaris (Nicosia, Cyprus), Philip Blakeley (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain) and Chetan Laddha (Surrey, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including one or more sensor units. Each of the sensor units includes an inner shell, an outer shell, and a magnetic sensor array. The magnetic sensor array is disposed between the inner shell and the outer shell. The inner shell, the outer shell, and the magnetic sensor array have curved shapes that complements an outer surface of ...