US Patent Issued to TREETOSCOPE on Sept. 1 for "Sap flow sensor and method of determining sap flow velocity" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,904, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TREETOSCOPE LTD (Israel).

"Sap flow sensor and method of determining sap flow velocity" was invented by Ori Ahiman (Mata, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining sap flow velocity, constituted of: providing a heat source and a thermal sensor on a single needle: at a no-flow condition, providing first heat energy to produce a steady state first pre-determined temperature rise: determining a total amount of first heat energy provided to produce the first pre-determined temperature rise: at a flow condition: providing second heat energy to produce a steady state second pre-d...