ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,682, issued on June 24, was assigned to HORIBA STEC Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Fluid control device, fluid control system, storage medium storing a program for fluid control device, and fluid control method" was invented by Sota Matsumoto (Kyoto, Japan), Kentaro Nagai (Kyoto, Japan), Yosuke Hisamori (Kyoto, Japan) and Kazuhiro Matsuura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to prevent unnatural behavior of a calculated flow rate, provided is a fluid control device in which a fluid control valve and upstream and downstream pressure sensors are provided on a flow path. The device includes a calculation unit configured to ...