ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,474, issued on May 27, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Semiconductor-based temperature sensor and method of operating the same" was invented by Seunghyun Jang (Daejeon, South Korea), Sunwoo Kong (Daejeon, South Korea), Bong Hyuk Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui Dong Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seok Bong Hyun (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a semiconductor-based temperature sensor and a method of operating the semiconductor-based temperature sensor. A temperature sensor includes an electrical temperature signal generator configured to g...