ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,163, issued on June 16, was assigned to DEKA Products LP (Manchester, N.H.).

"Volumetric measurement device, system and method" was invented by Gregory R. Lanier Jr. (Merrimack, N.H.), John M. Kerwin (Manchester, N.H.), Colin H. Murphy (Cambridge, Mass.) and Larry B. Gray (Merrimack, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic volume sensing device is disclosed. The device includes a housing comprising a reference volume chamber and a variable volume chamber, the reference volume chamber and the variable volume chamber connected by a resonant port, a first MEMS microphone located in acoustic relation to the variable volume chambe...