US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on May 27 for "Medical device with a thermal mass flow sensor for bubble detection" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,157, issued on May 27, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Medical device with a thermal mass flow sensor for bubble detection" was invented by Francis Patrick O'Neill (Kissimmee, Fla.), Ronald Paul Consiglio (Clermont, Fla.), Mark Shih-Cheih Lin (Winter Park, Fla.) and Carolus Gerardus Thijssen (Maitland, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device (10) includes a device housing (12). An in-line thermal mass flow sensor (26) includes a heater (28) and at least one temperature sensor (30). The in-line thermal mass flow sensor is vertically mounted on or in the device housing. The in-line therm...