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Matched Legal Cases: ['§120', '§120', 'Application No. 094104063', 'Application No. 2006', 'Application No. 2006', 'Application No. 200580004624', 'Application No. 200580004624', 'Application No. 094104063', 'Application No. 2006', 'Application No. 095103946']

US8015995B2 - System and method for flow monitoring and control - Google Patents
US8015995B2
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2010-05-10 Priority to US12/777,019 priority patent/US8015995B2/en
2010-05-10 Application filed by Entegris Inc filed Critical Entegris Inc
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This application is a continuation of and claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. §120 of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/054,467, entitled “System and Method for Flow Monitoring and Control” by Brodeur et al., filed Feb. 9, 2005 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,740,024, which is a continuation-in-part of and claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. §120 of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/777,300, entitled “System and Method for Flow Monitoring and Control” by Brodeur et al., filed Feb. 12, 2004, issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,973,375 on Dec. 6, 2005; the contents of applications referenced herein are hereby expressly incorporated by reference for all purposes.
20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein the memory is accessible by the controller.
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