US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE FOUNDATION on July 29 for "Fluid sensor system, computing device, and flow direction estimation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,386, issued on July 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo) and TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE FOUNDATION (Tokyo).

"Fluid sensor system, computing device, and flow direction estimation method" was invented by Shunsuke Mizumi (Tokyo), Naoto Omura (Tokyo), Masahiro Motosuke (Tokyo), Daiki Shiraishi (Tokyo) and Koichi Murakami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The sensor of a fluid sensor system includes an outer peripheral sensor unit including three or more sensor pairs to surround and sandwich the heating element. The computing device of the system includes a first identification unit identifies a sensor pair in...