ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,347, issued on Jan. 27.
"Flowmeter and method for operating same" was invented by Cornelis Johannes Hogendoorn (Spijk, Netherlands), Michael Vogt (Bochum, Germany) and Yves Janssens (Arnhem, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flowmeter for a multi-phase medium includes an ultrasonic transducer, a permittivity sensor, and a controller. The ultrasonic transducer converts electrical transmitting signals into ultrasonic transmitting signals, radiates them into the measurement volume, receives reflected ultrasonic receiving signals from the measurement volume, and converts the ultrasonic receiving signals into electrical receivi...