ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,763, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to La Vision GmbH (Goettingen, Germany).

"Method for detecting primary gas flows in flow chambers, use of a gas mixture therefor and gas mixture" was invented by Thomas Berg (Goettingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for detecting primary gas flows (18) in flow chambers (10). The primary gas (18) flowing in a flow chamber (10) is locally seeded with a seed substance and the movement of the seed substance, representative of the flow of the primary gas (18), is detected by imaging by an image detector (28) and an imaging optics (30) arranged in front of said image detec...