ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,968, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NORDSON Corp. (Westlake, Ohio).
"System and method for monitoring liquid adhesive flow" was invented by Wesley C. Fort (Cumming, Ga.), Ronald Ramspeck (Atlanta) and Enes Ramosevac (Snellville, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot melt adhesive system includes an adhesive supply for receiving solid or semi-solid hot melt adhesive, and a heater associated with the adhesive supply for melting the solid or semi-solid hot melt adhesive into liquid hot melt adhesive. An adhesive tracking system monitors an output of the liquid hot melt adhesive, and includes a flow meter having a flow inlet and...