ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,743, issued on June 2, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mist flow rate measuring apparatus" was invented by Takahiro Hiramatsu (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Orita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a mist flow rate measuring apparatus of the present disclosure, an external discharge pipe is constituted of a combination of an upstream pipe, a large-diameter transparent pipe, and a downstream pipe. A part of a mist flowing region in the large-diameter transparent pipe is an imaging target region of a mist imaging camera. An inner diameter D31 of the large-diameter transparent pipe is set to a value larger than an inner diameter D7 of ...