ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,389, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Neoperl GmbH (Mullheim, Germany).
"Method for identifying a jet regulator" was invented by Oliver Denzler (Bottmingen, Switzerland) and Frank Denzler (Binningen, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying a jet regulator (1) with improved precision and robustness is provided using a captured photo of a hole pattern (4) of an outlet structure (3) of the jet regulator (1). The captured photo is first compared with different stored hole pattern types (15) in a computer-implemented manner in a first step, and based on an evaluation of the respective degree of a match betwee...