F16T 1/48
Monitoring arrangements for inspecting
Official title: Monitoring arrangements for inspecting, e.g. flow of steam and steam condensate
F16T1/48 (Monitoring arrangements for inspecting) appears on 99 US grants and 92 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16T- Granted patents
- 99
- Published applications
- 92
- Assignees
- 38
- Inventors
- 163
- Latest grant
- 5 May 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method and system for selection and monitoring of a steam trap using deep neural network5 May 2026US 12,618,718 B2Eneon Sp. Z O.O.
- System and method for monitoring and control of steam lost from steam traps2 Dec 2025US 12,486,946 B2Zion Ing S.A.S.
- Device monitoring systems and methods25 Nov 2025US 12,480,916 B2Armstrong International, Inc.
- Method and system for determining steam trap data using machine learning25 Nov 2025US 12,481,253 B2Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Steam trap monitoring devices, systems, and related techniques11 Nov 2025US 12,467,586 B2Shoplogix (U.S.) Inc.
- Steam trap system26 Mar 2026US 2026/0085788 A1Forbes Marshall Technology Pvt Ltd
- Steam trap12 Feb 2026US 2026/0043518 A1Imperium Technologies, LLC
- Real-time advisory system and method for steam distribution network operation22 Jan 2026US 2026/0023399 A1Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Method and apparatus for analysing steam quality2 Oct 2025US 2025/0305913 A1Steris Europe, Inc.
- Systems, methods, and media for generating alerts of water hammer events in steam pipes28 Aug 2025US 2025/0271403 A1Latency, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Steam trap operation detector72US 4,898,022 ATLV Co., Ltd. · 1990
- Self-contained electronic system for monitoring purgers, valves and installations in real time41US 6,338,283 B12002
- Electronic drain system30US 4,197,990 AGeneral Electric Company · 1980
- Monitoring steam traps using RF signaling25US 5,992,436 AArmstrong International, Inc. · 1999
- Monitoring steam traps using RF signaling23US 6,145,529 AArmstrong International, Inc. · 2000