ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,699, issued on April 14, was assigned to Donaldson Co. Inc. (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Fluid condition sensing system and methods" was invented by Nathan D. Zambon (Cedar Falls, Iowa), Danny W. Miller (Ackley, Iowa), Chad M. Goltzman (Bloomington, Minn.), Giancarlo M. Izzi (Minneapolis), Davis B. Moravec (Burnsville, Minn.) and Michael J. Cronin (Apple Valley, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to oil condition sensing systems and related methods. In a first aspect, an oil condition sensing system is included having a control circuit, a temperature sensor, and a fluid property sensor, wherein the fluid proper...