US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on Nov. 25 for "Integrated thermal sensor and manufacturing process thereof" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,444, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Integrated thermal sensor and manufacturing process thereof" was invented by Enri Duqi (Milan) and Maria Eloisa Castagna (Catania, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated thermal sensor having a housing delimiting an internal space. A support region extends through the internal space; a plurality of thermocouple elements are carried by the support region and are electrically coupled to each other. Each thermocouple element is formed by a first and a second thermoelectrically active region of a first and, respectively, a second thermoel...