US Patent Issued to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARD AND SCIENCE on March 4 for "Thermal mass flowmeter" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,765, issued on March 4, was assigned to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARD AND SCIENCE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Thermal mass flowmeter" was invented by Seok Hwan Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a thermal mass flowmeter including: a heating unit configured to heat at least a portion of a medium in a tube from the outside of the tube; a first thermometer disposed at a first position that is a downstream side from the heating unit in a flow direction of the medium; a second thermometer disposed at a second position that is a downstream side further than the first thermometer from the heating unit; ...