ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,318, issued on May 26, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Multiphase flow meters and related methods" was invented by Songming Huang (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example multiphase fluid meters and related methods are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a fluid conduit coupled to tubing. A multiphase fluid is to flow from the tubing into the fluid conduit. The example apparatus includes a flow channel defined in the fluid conduit. The fluid is to flow through the flow channel. The flow channel has a cross-sectional shape different from a cross-sectional shape of ...