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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2022
Proteus Industries Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Mark R Nicewonger, Mountain View, CA (US);
Anh H Nguyen, Ho Chi Minh, VN;
Proteus Industries Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and apparatus for liquid flow sensing and measurement with real-time, dynamic, fluid-configurable computing portion as a software-defined sensor system (SDSS). One embodiment detachably partitions liquid flow meter into a sensing portion and a computing portion, each of the two portions having their own memory. Information directly related to physical and operational properties of the sensing portion, i.e., calibration, is stored locally in memory of sensing portion, and accessible by the computing portion. Configuration information for computing portion in particular applications of the flow meter, e.g., fluid characteristics for viscosity calculation, is stored locally in computing portion memory. Dividing information into two memories allows sensing portion and computing portion of a flowmeter to be replaceable at their subcomponent level with a standard or single stock unit sensing portion calibrated to a standard condition and a single stock unit computing portion configurable to a plurality of fluid types and operating temperatures without additional calibration.