US Patent Issued to Donaldson on June 24 for "Fluid aeration detection systems and methods" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,252, issued on June 24, was assigned to Donaldson Co. Inc. (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Fluid aeration detection systems and methods" was invented by Michael J. Cronin (Apple Valley, Minn.) and Xiaobin Wang (Chanhassen, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to systems and methods for detecting aeration properties in fluids using a vibration sensor. In an embodiment, a system for fluid aeration monitoring is included having a vibration sensor configured to be mounted along a fluid flow path, and a control circuit in signal communication with the vibration sensor. The control circuit can be configured to evaluate a s...