US Patent Issued to National Tsing Hua University on July 7 for "Methods for flow and fluid properties measurement using intrinsic and extrinsic optical transducers" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,735, issued on July 7, was assigned to National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Methods for flow and fluid properties measurement using intrinsic and extrinsic optical transducers" was invented by Wei-Chih Wang (Sammamish, Wash.) and Fiona Marie Wang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for measuring fluid's viscosity and mass flow, including the steps of immersing one end of an optical fiber into fluid, emitting a light beam by a light source, receiving the light beam by the optical fiber; and measuring the viscosity and the mass flow of the fluid in a sink based on a displacement of the one end ...