ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,107, issued on June 10, was assigned to WATLOW ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY (St. Louis).

"Dual-purpose heater and fluid flow measurement system" was invented by Cal Swanson (St. Louis), Mark D. Everly (St. Charles, Mo.), David P. Culbertson (Bristol, Wis.), James N. Pradun (Lake Geneva, Wis.), Jeremy J. Quandt (Winona, Minn.), Mark L. G. Hoven (Winona, Minn.), Jeremy Ohse (St. Louis) and Sanhong Zhang (Wildwood, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for use in a fluid flow application includes a heater and a control device. The heater includes at least one resistive heating element having a relationship between resist...