US Patent Issued to YPF TECNOLOGIA on Sept. 9 for "System and method for measuring solid objects flow rate" (Argentinean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,033, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to YPF TECNOLOGIA S.A. (Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina).

"System and method for measuring solid objects flow rate" was invented by Marco Petriella (Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Yago Cagnacci (Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for measuring cuttings flow rate comprising a surface, a laser line generator, a high-resolution camera, a data processing unit, wherein the data processing unit is configured for acquiring a laser line position data as a function of time from a plurality of photographs taken by the high-resoluti...