ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,030, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Flow device and associated method and system" was invented by Andy Walker Brown (Richardson, Texas), Adam D. McBrady (Dallas), Ryadh Abdullah Zakaria (Waterlooville, Great Britain) and Stephan Michael Bork (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow device, method, and system are provided for determining the fluid particle composition. An example flow device includes a fluid sensor configured to monitor at least one particle characteristic of fluid flowing through the fluid sensor. The example flow device also includes at least one process...