ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,589, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Rainbow particle imaging velocimetry for dense 3D fluid velocity imaging" was invented by Wolfgang Heidrich (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Jinhui Xiong (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Xiong Dun (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ramzi Idoughi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Sigurdur Tryggvi Thoroddsen (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Andres A. Aguirre-Pablo (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Abdulrahman B. Aljedaani (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Erqiang Li (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Imaging of complex, non-stationary three dimensional (3D) flow veloc...