ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,291, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Innovator Sensor Technology IST AG (Ebnat-Kappel, Switzerland).
"Thermal sensor and method for operating the thermal sensor" was invented by Ralf Emanuel Bernhardsgrutter (Sulgen, Switzerland) and Christoph Hepp (Wil, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a thermal sensor, wherein the thermal sensor includes a sensor element and an electronics, the sensor element in thermal contact with a container, in which a measured medium flows with a flow velocity, the sensor element periodically heated by an alternating voltage and, at the same time, a temperature of the sensor...