ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,697, issued on July 8, was assigned to Donaldson Co. Inc. (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Air bubble sensing systems and related signal processing" was invented by Davis B. Moravec (Burnsville, Minn.), Michael J. Cronin (Apple Valley, Minn.), Danny W. Miller (Ackley, Iowa), Chad M. Goltzman (Bloomington, Minn.), Mikayla A. Yoder (Eagan, Minn.) and Bradly G. Hauser (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to systems for detecting air bubbles in fluids. In an embodiment, a fluid system aeration detector is included having an optical air bubble sensor. The optical air bubble sensor can include a light source, a light ...