US Patent Issued to Neptune Technology Group on April 7 for "Ultrasonic meter with single transducer" (Georgia, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,024, issued on April 7, was assigned to Neptune Technology Group LLC (Tallassee, Ala.).

"Ultrasonic meter with single transducer" was invented by Jeffrey M. Fowler (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Mahesh Matam (Cumming, Ga.), David Hamilton (Auburn, Ala.) and Nicholas Russell Winston (Norcross, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metering system uses an electronics assembly with a single transducer to determine flow rate. The meter assembly emits an ultrasonic beam from the transducer and splits the ultrasonic beam into a first partial beam and a second partial beam. The first partial beam is transmitted over a first path that returns to the e...