ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,750, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to DEKA Products LP (Manchester, N.H.).
"System, method, and apparatus for bubble detection in a fluid line" was invented by David Blumberg Jr. (Deerfield, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for detecting at least one condition of interest relating to a tube, e.g. the presence of an air bubble. In some embodiments, the sensor includes antennas, a split-ring resonator, a frequency generator capable of generating frequencies in the microwave range, and a detection component. The detection component may estimate at least one parameter of received microwave energy in order to determine i...