ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,040, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Temperature-measuring device" was invented by Joerg Gebhardt (Mainz, Germany), Wilhelm Daake (Petershagen, Germany), Karsten Schroeder (Petershagen, Germany), Subhashish Dasgupta (Bangalore, India), Guruprasad Sosale (Munich) and Patric Ackermann (Fischbachtal, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature-measuring device for determining the temperature of a surface or a medium by utilizing the temperature of the surface enclosing the medium includes at least one measuring sensor and at least one reference sensor as well as a value processing device, ...