ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,372, issued on June 10, was assigned to Rosemount Aerospace Inc. (Burnsville, Minn.).

"Test methodology to determine power ouput of a thermistor under a defined thermal load" was invented by Daniel Hanson (Shakopee, Minn.), Richard Alan Schwartz (Faribault, Minn.), Alexandra C. Jenkins (Prior Lake, Minn.) and Luke Anderson (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A methodology includes circulating a temperature-controlled and flow-rate-controlled medium through a container at a controlled flow rate and submerging a thermistor with the medium. With the thermistor submerged, a power output of the thermistor is determined and com...