ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,147, issued on June 24, was assigned to IFM Electronic GmbH (Essen, Germany).
"Magnetic-inductive flowmeter" was invented by Matthias Kibele (Waldburg, Germany), Patrick Werner (Stetten, Germany), Marc Doehring (Aulendorf, Germany) and Markus Seitz (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a magnetic-inductive flowmeter for measuring the flow of a flowing, conductive medium. The flowmeter has a measuring tube, a magnetic field generating device, two pin shaped measuring electrodes, insertion parts each having a through-hole through which the two measuring electrodes respectively extend, the mea...