ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,669, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FLOWLIT LTD (Rehovot, Israel).
"Optical measurement of flow parameters" was invented by Joseph Shapira (Ashdod, Israel), Abraham Englander (Rehovot, Israel) and Tuvia Segal (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fluid flow measurement includes a emitting a light beam into a pipe through which a fluid flows, the light beam illuminating the fluid flowing in the pipe, using a light detector array to detect light caused by scattering of the beam with particles found in the fluid, the light beam being outside a field of view of the light detector array, dividing the field of vie...