ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,116, issued on June 24, was assigned to DEKA Products Ltd. Partneship (Manchester, N.H.).

"Product dispensing system" was invented by Russell H. Beavis (Merrimack, N.H.), Benjamin W. Jones Jr. (Salisbury, N.H.), John M. Kerwin (Manchester, N.H.), Larry B. Gray (Merrimack, N.H.), Casey P. Manning (Manchester, N.H.), Felix Winkler (Oakland, Calif.) and Robert A. Charles (New Boston, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow sensor includes a fluid chamber configured to receive a fluid. A diaphragm assembly is configured to be displaced whenever the fluid within the fluid chamber is displaced. A transducer assembly is configured to mon...