ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,397, issued on June 24, was assigned to AMS AG (Premstatten, Austria).

"Temperature sensor, laser circuit, light detection and ranging system and method" was invented by Sebastien Poirier (Premstatten, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment a temperature sensor has a first sensing unit operable to provide a first pseudo-differential unipolar analog signal representing a first temperature value of a power unit, an interface circuit operable to provide a second pseudo-differential unipolar analog signal representing a second temperature value of a powered unit, a multiplexer circuit which is operable to provide a pseu...