US Patent Issued to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA on Dec. 9 for "Vortex flowmeter providing extended flow rate measurement" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,925, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA INC. (Foxborough, Mass.).

"Vortex flowmeter providing extended flow rate measurement" was invented by Jeffrey Mattar (Foxborough, Mass.) and Harry DesRosiers (Attleborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vortex flowmeter for measuring a flow rate of a fluid. The meter includes a flowtube, a bluff body, and a vortex sensor. The bluff body, which is positioned in the flowtube, sheds vortices in the fluid when the fluid flows through the flowtube and the vortex sensor detects the vortices and generates a vortex signal representing the detected vortices. A press...