ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,420, issued on July 21, was assigned to MICRO MOTION INC. (Boulder, Colo.).

"Detecting and identifying a change in a vibratory meter" was invented by Timothy J. Cunningham (Boulder, Colo.), Andrew Timothy Patten (Boulder, Colo.) and Mark James Bell (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meter electronics (20) for detecting and identifying a change in a vibratory meter (5) is provided. The meter electronics (20) includes a processing system (202) including a storage system (204) configured to store a central tendency value of a meter verification parameter and dispersion value of the meter verification parameter. The proces...