ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,047, issued on July 15, was assigned to Bigfoot Biomedical Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Liquid measurement systems, apparatus, and methods optimized with temperature sensing" was invented by James White (Cambridge, Mass.), Richard Whalley (Cambridge, Mass.), Kevin Sihlanick (Cambridge, Mass.) and Matthew Legrand (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for measuring liquid volume in a container includes a plurality of light sources for emitting electromagnetic radiation (EMR) toward the container, a plurality of sensors optically coupleable to the plurality of light sources, each sensor of the plurality of sensors f...