ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,373, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Gas meter" was invented by Kenji Nagatomo (Kyoto, Japan), Mitsuo Yokohata (Osaka, Japan) and Mitsunobu Enomoto (Nara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow rate measuring member configured to measure a flow rate of a gas, a storage configured to store a plurality of pieces of predetermined data, except for a meter read value, of a plurality of pieces of data each of which is calculated based on the flow rate measured by the flow rate measuring member, and a communicator configured to transmit the plurality of pieces of...