ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,742, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Sensirion AG (Stafa, Switzerland).

"Thermal sensor device and method for determining a concentration of a target gas in a gas sample" was invented by Andreas Ruegg (Mannedorf, Switzerland), David Kiliani (Hombrechtikon, Switzerland), Matthias Studer (Mannedorf, Switzerland), Nicolas Moeller (Stafa, Switzerland), Mark Hornung (Stafa, Switzerland) and Lukas Burgi (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal sensor device serves for determining a concentration of a target gas in a gas sample that further comprises a disturbance gas. The thermal sensor device comprises first and second measurem...