US Patent Issued to Nirrin Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Method, system, and sensor device for monitoring foam in vessel" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,795, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Nirrin Technologies Inc. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Method, system, and sensor device for monitoring foam in vessel" was invented by Bryan A. Hassell (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foam sensor device is used for monitoring foam within a vessel. The sensor (e.g. accelerometer) is encapsulated inside a water-tight, sterilizable, shell, which floats on a liquid contained. In one example, the foam sensor device includes an accelerometer for detecting and measuring rotation and movement of the foam sensor device and generates movement data based on the detected movement. During a learn...