ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,778, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Proteus Industries Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method for managing information in liquid velocity measurement" was invented by Mark R Nicewonger (Mountain View, Calif.) and Anh H Nguyen (Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and apparatus for liquid flow sensing and measurement with real-time, dynamic, fluid-configurable computing portion as a software-defined sensor system (SDSS). One embodiment detachably partitions liquid flow meter into a sensing portion and a computing portion, each of the two portions having their own memory. Information directly relate...