ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,486, issued on July 22, was assigned to AyDeeKay LLC (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).
"Multi-sensing PTAT for multiple-location temperature sensing" was invented by Scott David Kee (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit that controls distributed temperature sensors in a semiconductor die is described. This integrated circuit may include: memory; a controller (such as a PTAT controller) coupled to the memory; temperature sensors distributed at measurement locations in the semiconductor die (such as remote locations from the controller), where a given temperature sensor includes building blocks (or components) ...