ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,144, issued on July 28, was assigned to Krohne AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Method for operating an ultrasonic flowmeter and ultrasonic flowmeter" was invented by Arie Huijzer (Sliedrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an ultrasonic flowmeter includes the steps of: emitting a measuring signal having a first part that propagates as an interference signal along and/or within a wall of a measuring tube, and a second part that propagates as a useful signal through a medium flowing through the measuring tube; receiving the interference signal and the useful signal; determining an interference amplitude of ...