ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,945, issued on April 22, was assigned to GEA FOOD SOLUTIONS BAKEL B.V. (Bakel, Netherlands).
"Temperature measurement" was invented by Joost Van Erp (Nuenen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to determine a temperature of a product, the method includes: determining a dielectric constant as a function of a core-, surface-, and/or average-temperature correlation Epsilon(T) of at least one product and storing the dielectric constant in a computer means; locating the product between a microwave-radiometry-antenna and a microwave-radiometry-receiver and measuring the dielectric properties of the product; selecting the cor...