ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,394, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).

"Ultrasonic flow sensor" was invented by David Modderman (Dunrobin, Canada), Ronald Byron Kabler (Roselle, Ill.), Omar G. Dary (Herndon, Va.), Glenn Tournier (Vienna, Va.) and Dean Constantine (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for an ultrasonic sensor. One of the systems includes a first ultrasonic assembly that includes a first waveguide formed by a first monolithic body, and a first ultrasonic transducer mounted to the first waveguide, wherein the fi...