ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,484, issued on July 22, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Temperature sensor" was invented by Alexander Sebastian Delke (Enschede, Netherlands), Anne Johan Annema (Hengelo, Netherlands), Jos Verlinden (Wachtendonk, Germany), Bram Nauta (Borne, Netherlands) and Mike Jordens (Enschede, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature sensor and method of temperature sensing is described. A first reference current is provided to a dual-slope ADC during a first slope time duration of a dual-slope ADC conversion cycle. A second reference current is provided to the dual-slope ADC during a second slope time duratio...