ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,928, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to INTEGRA METERING SAS (Blagnac, France).

"Flow meter and assembly method therefor" was invented by Marwan Zeidan (Montauban, France), Clementine Pouget (Toulouse, France), Maxime Morin (Toulouse, France) and Alain Ramond (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a flowmeter including: pipe (2) for measuring the flowrate of a fluid, said pipe extending along a longitudinal axis (10, 110), a first ultrasound transducer (36, 37) and a second ultrasound transducer (46, 47) are mounted facing one another relative to a wall of said pipe, a first housing (30) and a second ho...