ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,179, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GWF AG (Lucerne, Switzerland).

"Flow meter" was invented by Matthias Zbinden (Magden, Switzerland), Trung Dung Luong (Kriens, Switzerland), Hoang-ha Nguyen (Hanoi, Viet Nam), Sergio Thaddey (Adligenswil, Switzerland) and Markus Helfenstein (Lucerne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a flow meter (1) comprising a measuring channel insert (28) which is placed in a flow channel body (2) in the radial direction, an inlet insert (24) and/or an outlet insert (26) being placed in advance in the axial direction."

The patent was filed on June 18, 2024, under Applicatio...