US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 29 for "Adjustable transition edge thermometer" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,417, issued on July 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Adjustable transition edge thermometer" was invented by Andrea Gemma (Zurich) and Bernd W. Gotsmann (Horgen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are a temperature sensor, a semiconductor device, and a method of measuring a temperature of a sample. One embodiment of the temperature sensor may comprise a probe circuit, the probe circuit having a thermal operational range. The temperature sensor may further comprise a thermal resistor separating the probe circuit from a sample. The temperature sensor may further comprise a hea...