US Patent Issued to AIR WATER BIODESIGN, NIKKISO on July 8 for "Flow velocity determining apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,778, issued on July 8, was assigned to AIR WATER BIODESIGN INC. (Kobe, Japan) and NIKKISO COMPANY Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Flow velocity determining apparatus" was invented by Ikuya Kikuchi (Kawagoe, Japan), Atsuya Ito (Kawagoe, Japan) and Ryohei Kagawa (Kawagoe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow velocity determining apparatus (10) includes an irradiating unit (20) that emits irradiation light (L1) toward a liquid mixture (BL) which contains a non-spherical solid (BC) and a liquid (BP) and flows through a flow path (TB), a detecting unit (30) that detects reflected light (L2) emitted by the irradiating unit (20) and reflected by the l...