US Patent Issued to KAMSTRUP on May 6 for "Fluid consumption meter and method for detecting sound in a piping system" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,318, issued on May 6, was assigned to KAMSTRUP A/S (Skanderborg, Denmark).

"Fluid consumption meter and method for detecting sound in a piping system" was invented by Anders Hedegaard (Skanderborg, Denmark) and Sune Hoveroust Dupont (Skanderborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid consumption meter (2) is arranged to measure a flow rate of a fluid and has a control device (14) with a sound detection module (26) arranged to detect a sound in said fluid. The control device (14) is configured such that during activation of the sound detection module (26) at least one further module (20, 22, 24) of the consumption meter (2) n...