US Patent Issued to ROSEMOUNT TANK RADAR on April 7 for "Vibrating fork type field device with coil arrangement to induce vibration" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,101, issued on April 7, was assigned to ROSEMOUNT TANK RADAR AB (Molnlycke, Sweden).

"Vibrating fork type field device with coil arrangement to induce vibration" was invented by Jon Sjostedt (Grabo, Sweden), Michael Larsson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Stig Larsson (Savedalen, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field device comprising first and second tines; first and second rods coupled to the first and second tines; a coil arrangement fixed to the first rod; a magnet fixed to the second rod, opposite the coil arrangement; excitation circuitry coupled to the coil arrangement and controllable to provide a time-varying current to the...