ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,180, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for switched measuring of flow tubes of a flow meter" was invented by Christian Lampe-Jurgens (Spelle, Germany), Ralf Heinrich Schroder genannt Berghegger (Glandorf, Germany), Tobias Meimberg (Osnabruck, Germany), Andreas Wuchrer (Georgsmarienhutte, Germany) and Juri Singer (Alfhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for determining a time-of-flight in an integrated flow meter, can include a housing including an inlet port and an outlet port, and a group of flow tubes connected in parallel to each othe...