US Patent Issued to Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials on July 15 for "Thermal flow meter for electric drug injection pump and method for measuring flow using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,754, issued on July 15, was assigned to Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Thermal flow meter for electric drug injection pump and method for measuring flow using same" was invented by Dongkyu Lee (Daegu, South Korea), Ohwon Kwon (Daegu, South Korea), Changwon Kim (Daegu, South Korea), Kang-Ho Lee (Daegu, South Korea) and Jiae Kim (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a flow meter for an electric drug injection pump and a method for measuring a flow using the flow meter, the flow meter includes a lower case, an upper case and a temperature sensor part. A plurality of grooves and an exten...