US Patent Issued to ROSEMOUNT TANK RADAR on May 27 for "Radar level gauge system and method with transmission line probe and stepped frequency sweep" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,439, issued on May 27, was assigned to ROSEMOUNT TANK RADAR AB (Molnlycke, Sweden).

"Radar level gauge system and method with transmission line probe and stepped frequency sweep" was invented by Mikael Eriksson (Vastervik, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a filling level of a product in a tank, comprising the steps of: generating an electromagnetic transmit signal exhibiting a measurement sweep across a time series of piece-wise constant frequencies being within a measurement frequency range starting at a first frequency, and ending at a second frequency higher than the first frequency, a difference betwe...