ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,775, issued on March 24, was assigned to Kuwana Metals Ltd. (Kuwana, Japan).
"Temperature sensor as well as mass flow meter and mass flow controller comprising the same" was invented by Masaaki Itatani (Mie Ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature sensor used for a mass flow meter is constituted by a flow channel through which a fluid flows, a temperature measuring means which has a temperature measuring point in a central part of a cross section of the flow channel, and a temperature uniformalizing means disposed on an upstream side from the temperature measuring point in the flow channel. The temperature uniformaliz...