US Patent Issued to VICTAULIC on Dec. 2 for "Calibrated flow rate sensing and flow control device" (Pennsylvania, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,108, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to VICTAULIC COMPANY (Easton, Pa.).

"Calibrated flow rate sensing and flow control device" was invented by Andrew Michael Ciasulli (Nazareth, Pa.), Stephen Joseph Meyer (Chester Springs, Pa.), Kristopher Lawrence Desrochers (Cincinnati), Neal A. Clevenger (Nazareth, Pa.) and Lawrence R. Carmen Jr. (Bath, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid flow rate sensor, which may also be the basis of a valve for a fire suppression system, uses a sensing arm to convey motion of an obturation body or a valve closing member to a sensor system which evaluates the motion and generates a calibrated measure of t...