US Patent Issued to United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of NASA on March 17 for "Optical wastewater pretreat sensor" (Florida, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,263, issued on March 17, was assigned to United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"Optical wastewater pretreat sensor" was invented by Robert C. Youngquist (Cocoa, Fla.), Christopher John Biagi (Titusville, Fla.), Tracy L. Gibson (Melbourne, Fla.), Mark Nurge (Oviedo, Fla.) and Upendra Nath Singh (Yorktown, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject invention is an optical sensor system for calculating the percentage of wastewater pretreat fluid within a fluid mixture. The system provides light from a light source to a transparent vessel containing a fluid mixture. The light source and a...