ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,010, issued on June 2, was assigned to Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG (Goettingen, Germany).
"Method and apparatus for detecting subcooled liquid precipitation" was invented by Joachim Beinhorn (Niemetal, Germany), Christoph Peper (Hannover, Germany) and Herbert Windolph (Duderstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to detect subcooled liquid precipitation, a temperature of an object having a precipitation impingement surface is measured, and an occurrence of precipitation onto the precipitation impingement surface is determined. The temperature of the object and the occurrence of the precipitation are analyzed, and a subcoo...