US Patent Issued to HORIBA STEC on Aug. 26 for "Flow ratio controller system operating in alternative control modes" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,516, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to HORIBA STEC Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Flow ratio controller system operating in alternative control modes" was invented by Patrick Lowery (Reno, Nev.), Maximilian Martin Gundlach (Reno, Nev.), Tadahiro Yasuda (Kyoto, Japan) and Andrew Price (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow ratio controller system includes an inlet receiving a total inlet fluid flow from one or more inlet channels, distribution channels fluidically connected to the inlet and arranged in parallel in a branching flow path downstream of the inlet, and a controller. The distribution channels includes a hybrid distri...