ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,151, issued on June 24, was assigned to FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"Flow sensor and method of measuring a flow" was invented by Dejan Nikolic (Bad Soden, Germany) and Alexander Heide (Eppstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a flow sensor for measuring a flow difference having at least two measurement chambers through which fluid is conductible; at least one means for producing a magnetic field for charge separation in a fluid flowing through the at least two measurement chambers; and at least one means for measuring an electric potential in the fluid flowi...