US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Jan. 20 for "Thermopile-based flow sensing apparatus with electrostatic protection" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,585, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Thermopile-based flow sensing apparatus with electrostatic protection" was invented by Scott Edward Beck (Charlotte, N.C.), Yong-Fa Alan Wang (Charlotte, N.C.), Yousef M. Alimi (Charlotte, N.C.), Thuy-Doan Pham (Charlotte, N.C.) and Hongqiang Yan (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods, apparatuses, and systems for sensing a flow of fluid are provided. The apparatus includes, but not limited to: a membrane structure defining a heated area; a heating structure disposed over the membrane structure and configured to heat the ...