ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,994, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Diehl Metering GmbH (Ansbach, Germany).

"Method for operating an ultrasonic fluid meter, and ultrasonic fluid meter" was invented by Andreas Madinger (Ansbach, Germany), Florian Herrmann (Langfurth, Germany) and Philip Wolf (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an ultrasonic fluid meter, preferably an ultrasonic water meter, in a fluid line network, at a measuring rate with one measuring interval, includes generating an ultrasonic signal at specific time points by an ultrasonic converter, the ultrasonic signal passing through a measuring section, and the fluid ...