ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,170, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dune Labs Inc. (Westlake Village, Calif.).
"Ultrasonic flow metering" was invented by Garo S. Sarkissian (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Gallin C. Chen (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Bruce J. Buchan (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a novel, easy to install, non-intrusive, ultrasonic water flow meter with a self-calibrating three-piezoelectric transducer configuration attached externally to a water pipe, that allows for accurate measurement of water flow, and can provide the flow data to a remote system for billing and further analysis. The water flow data can further be a...