US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations, Airbus, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule on Sept. 9 for "Method and system for determining flow properties of a fluid flowing along a surface" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,152, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany), Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France) and Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule (Regensburg, Germany).

"Method and system for determining flow properties of a fluid flowing along a surface" was invented by Alois Friedberger (Hamburg, Germany), Bruno Stefes (Hamburg, Germany), Dominik Berndt (Regensburg, Germany) and Rupert Schreiner (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining flow properties of a fluid flowing along a surface by: modulating the current through a heating element of a thermal flow sensor located on the surface with...