US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Princeton University on Feb. 17 for "Omnidirectional flow sensor" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,754, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.).

"Omnidirectional flow sensor" was invented by Nathaniel Simon (Princeton, N.J.), Alexander Pique (Princeton, N.J.), David Snyder (Princeton, N.J.), Kyle Ikuma (Norwood, N.J.), Anirudha Majumdar (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Marcus Hultmark (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a fast-response sensor system to measure a fluid vector in a plurality of dimensions. This system, known as 'MAST' (for MEMS Anemometry Sensing Tower), utilizes microelectromechanical (MEMS) hot-wire devices to produce a solid-state, lightweight, an...