ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,778, issued on March 24, was assigned to Testo SE & Co. KGaA (Titisee-Neustadt, Germany).
"Automatic distance measurement in a flow channel" was invented by Stefan Schott (Oberbergen, Germany), Sebastian Bach (Breitnau, Germany), Michael Kampferbeck (Kirchzarten, Germany), Sarah Eisenkolb (Titisee-Neustadt, Germany) and Benjamin Landenberger (Freiburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In flow probes (11) including measuring sensors (2) on a distal end (3) of a shaft (4), it is also provided to configure at least one distance sensor (7, 8, 9) and an acceleration sensor (16) on this distal end (3), in order to enable an automati...