US Patent Issued to GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas on July 1 for "Systems and methods for non-disruptive estimation and control of fluid flow rates" (North Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,138, issued on July 1, was assigned to GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC (Wilmington, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for non-disruptive estimation and control of fluid flow rates" was invented by Jerry W. Nicholson (Leland, N.C.), Gregory A. Natsui (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Giridhar Jothiprasad (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide flow rate measuring and control of drives, like fluid circulators, using non-disruptive sensors giving fluid pressures, temperature, density, pressure drop, etc. at or across the drive. Using these sensor outputs, drive operation, and a relationship of coefficients based ...