ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,695, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LEAP Semiconductor Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Temperature sensing device" was invented by Wei-Fan Chen (Taichung, Taiwan) and Kuo-Chi Tsai (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature sensing device includes a resistor string and a control circuitry. The resistor string includes a variable resistor, a first resistor, and a second resistor which are coupled in series with each other. The resistor string is coupled between a sensing end and a reference ground voltage. The first resistor and the second resistor are coupled to a monitoring end to provide a monitoring voltage. The co...