ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,561, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MICRO MOTION INC. (Boulder, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for inferring energy and burning properties of a fluid in a pipeline" was invented by George Alexander MacDonald (Wokingham, Great Britain), Tony Wright (Chichester, Great Britain), Timothy James Pegg (Fleet, Great Britain), Hans Christopher Loewenheath (Boulder, Colo.) and Anthony William Pankratz (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for inferring energy content of a flow fluid in a gaseous state is disclosed. The method is carried out by a computer system (200) having a processor (210) and memory (220), the memory (220...