ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,548, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BorgWarner Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Thermistor self-heating compensation" was invented by James C. Bach (Westfield, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature monitoring circuit and control system for compensating for self-heating effects of a thermistor used for measuring a temperature within a system includes a thermistor, a pull-up resistor, a node configured to receive a reference voltage, and a node configured to supply a sensed voltage; the control system measures a voltage across the thermistor; determines a thermistor resistance based on a known supply voltage and a known bia...