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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2005
Applicant:
James D. Davis, Beaumont, TX (US);
Inventor:
James D. Davis, Beaumont, TX (US);
Assignee:
Kinder Morgan, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/60 (2006.01); G01S 15/00 (2006.01); F16L 55/44 (2006.01); G01N 19/08 (2006.01); G01C 9/00 (2006.01); G21C 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for predicting the location of stress corrosion cracking in a steel gas pipeline in which in-line stress corrosion cracking smart tool data, external low level metal loss data and soil characterization data are compiled to predict the location of stress corrosion cracking in a steel gas pipeline segment.