US Patent Issued to Black & Decker on Aug. 19 for "Methods and devices for controlling the temperature of a surface" (Chinese, British, American, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,533, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Methods and devices for controlling the temperature of a surface" was invented by Tylan A. Tschopp (Baltimore), Lauren Lynch Clayton (Baltimore), Ashok Samuel Baskar (Glen Arm, Md.), Christopher Lee Garbutt (Middlesbrough, Great Britain), Zara Elizabeth Jones (Marriottsville, Md.), Yen Lim Lee (Penang, Malaysia), Jianquan Li (Foshan, China), Liangxiong Huang (Xingning, China), Yunfei Zhong (Foshan, China) and Yamin Jiang (Daye, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for a method for controlling the temperature of ...