ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,355, issued on June 30, was assigned to SIKA DR. SIEBERT & KUHN GMBH & Co. KG (Kaufungen, Germany).
"Flowmeter" was invented by Stefan Zander (Kassel, Germany), Sergius Schmidt (Kassel, Germany) and Bastian Bleichert (Kaufungen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flowmeter for measuring the flow rate of a fluid has a measuring tube which forms a measurement space through which the fluid can flow. At least one disruptive body is arranged in the measurement space. The measurement space additionally has, downstream of the disruptive body, a pickup arranged in it that can be deflected based on a vortex formation at the disruptive b...