ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,303, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SONOTEC GMBH (Halle, Germany) and STEFAN WIEGAND (Halle, Germany).

"Apparatus for measuring a flow of a fluid, in particular a urine flow" was invented by Stefan Wiegand (Halle, Germany), Hans-Joachim Munch (Halle, Germany), Hans-Christian Schaich (Leipzig, Germany), Maik Christl (Kabelsketal, Germany), Nicki Bader (Halle, Germany), Wolfgang Kircher (Halle, Germany), Felix Kaczmarek (Halle, Germany) and Thomas Spangenberg (Halle, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an apparatus for measuring a flow of a fluid in dependence on time, in particular a urine flow, includi...