ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,172, issued on June 24, was assigned to KIMA PROCESS CONTROL GMBH (Julich, Germany).

"Device for acoustic temperature measurement" was invented by Peter Kalkert (Julich, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device (1) at least for an acoustic temperature measurement in a gaseous medium (M) passing a medium channel (110) by means of runtime measurement of an acoustic pulse (AP) running through the gaseous medium (M) from at least a first transmitter arrangement (TA1) to at least a first receiver arrangement (RA1), the first transmitter arrangement (TA1) comprising a sound pulse generator (2) for the genera...