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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 21, 2017
Applicant:

Hach Company, Loveland, CO (US);

Inventor:

David L. Rick, Longmont, CO (US);

Assignee:

HACH COMPANY, Loveland, CO (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 13/58 (2006.01); G01F 1/00 (2006.01); G01S 17/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 1/002 (2013.01); G01S 13/584 (2013.01); G01S 17/58 (2013.01);
Abstract

An embodiment provides a method for measuring velocity and depth of fluid flow in a channel, including: transmitting, using a transmitter, directed energy comprising a single energy beam slant-wise toward a surface of a fluid in a fluid channel producing a plurality of reflections, wherein the transmitting comprises modulating a frequency associated with the single energy beam; detecting, at a receiver, received signals from the plurality of reflections; and determining, based upon differences between parameters of the transmitted single energy beam and parameters of the received signals, the velocity of the fluid and the depth of the fluid. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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