ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,711, issued on June 3.

"Method for calibrating a temperature measuring unit based on ultrasonic measurement, method for measuring the temperature of a medium, temperature measuring unit and ultrasonic flowmeter" was invented by Cornelis Johannes Hogendoor (BG Spijk, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating a temperature measuring unit based on ultrasound measurement includes: establishing an empirical functional relationship between the medium temperature of a medium to be measured and the velocity of sound of a measurement signal passing through the medium to be measured; capturing at least the velocity of ...