US Patent Issued on Nov. 11 for "Computer-implemented method for operating a shut-off device for a fluid and a corresponding shut-off device" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,314, issued on Nov. 11.

"Computer-implemented method for operating a shut-off device for a fluid and a corresponding shut-off device" was invented by Cornelis Johannes Hogendoorn (Spijk, Netherlands) and Stefan van Caspel (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for operating a shut-off device for a fluid includes: using a mathematical model to calculate a current static fluid pressure at a location of interest within a shut-off device as a function of at least one measured state variable of the fluid; determining a vapor pressure of the fluid; comparing a current static fluid pressure with...