US Patent Issued to Krohne on June 2 for "Ultrasonic flowmeter" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,740, issued on June 2, was assigned to Krohne AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Ultrasonic flowmeter" was invented by Willemijn Schipper (Papendrecht, Netherlands), Jeroen Martin van Klooster (Tiel, Netherlands) and Arie Huijzer (Sliedrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic flowmeter includes first and second ultrasonic transducers and a control and evaluation unit. The first and second ultrasonic transducers include respective transducer housings that are at least partially capable of mechanical oscillation and are at least partially excited to mechanical oscillations for signal emission or signal coupling. The contro...