ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,395, issued on March 18, was assigned to Roxar Flow Measurement AS (Stavanger, Norway).
"Enlarged pipe section for microwave-based flow measurements" was invented by Ebbe Gustaf Nyfors (Sandnes, Norway) and Erik Undheim (Bryne, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pipe section for flow measurements including measuring antennas configured to measure predetermined characteristics of fluid inside the pipe section. The pipe section includes an input end and an output end having a predetermined dimension. The pipe section includes a section having a first cross section in a first direction extending beyond the input and output dimension...