US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Jan. 20 for "Measurement of system for streamflow determination in real time" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,586, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Iowa City, Iowa).

"Measurement of system for streamflow determination in real time" was invented by Marian Muste (Iowa City, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating stream flow data of a channel includes steps of acquiring direct measurement of an index velocity of the channel, acquiring stage measurements for the channel for use in determining slope of a free surface, and applying a data-driven model combining the index velocity and a continuous slope-area method which uses the slope of the free surface to estimate stream flow data of...