ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,992, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Flow passage adapter" was invented by Hiroto Fukui (Nara, Japan) and Hiroshi Nakai (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow passage adapter of the present disclosure is a flow passage adapter configured to be attached to an inflow port of a flow rate measuring unit to introduce a measurement target fluid into the flow rate measuring unit. The flow passage adapter includes a flow passage which is disposed in a body of the flow passage adapter and through which the measurement target fluid is to flow and a plurality o...