ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,910, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Tendo Technologies Inc. (Princeton, N.J.).

"Multi-wire velocity sensor" was invented by Marcus Hultmark (Princeton, N.J.) and Yuyang Fan (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot wire anemometer including a substrate defining an opening through the substrate, configured to allow a fluid to flow through the opening, and multiple substantially parallel conductive wires, connected in series across the opening, in a direction parallel to a first surface of the substrate, where each wire is separated from adjacent wires by a distance that is 0.1 to 25 times the dimension of the wire in t...