US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on March 18 for "Velocity measurements using a piezoelectric sensor" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,394, issued on March 18, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Velocity measurements using a piezoelectric sensor" was invented by Norman Love (El Paso, Texas), Yirong Lin (El Paso, Texas), Jad Aboud (El Paso, Texas) and David Tucker (El Paso, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of measuring fluid flow rate is provided. The method comprises positioning a piezoelectric sensor in a fluid flow stream and measuring a voltage output from the piezoelectric sensor caused by mechanical stress from the fluid flow stream. A fluid flow rate is calculated based on the measured voltage outpu...