ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,693, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Temperature sensor assembly" was invented by Joerg Gebhardt (Mainz, Germany), Patric Ackermann (Fischbachtal, Germany), Subhashish Dasgupta (Bangalore, India), Wilhelm Daake (Petershagen, Germany), Karsten Schroeder (Petershagen, Germany) and Guruprasad Sosale (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature sensor assembly configured to be coupled thermally to a vessel wall for determining a temperature of a surface of the vessel wall is provided, the assembly includes: a first single-branched thermal conduction path, between the surface of the vessel ...