US Patent Issued to Sentinel Hydrosolutions on June 3 for "Thermal dispersion flow meter with fluid leak detection and freeze burst prevention" (California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,102, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sentinel Hydrosolutions LLC (Escondido, Calif.).

"Thermal dispersion flow meter with fluid leak detection and freeze burst prevention" was invented by Robert Trescott (San Marcos, Calif.), Scott Shaw (Brentwood, Tenn.), Scott Pallais (Escondido, Calif.) and Kenneth Fox (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-invasive thermal dispersion flow meter with chronometric monitor for fluid leak detection includes a heater, an ambient temperature sensor and a flow rate sensor which are configured to sense the temperature of a fluid in a conduit, and then monitor the flow of that fluid thro...