US Patent Issued to TDA Research on March 4 for "Gas temperature sensor with thermally luminescent compounds" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,795, issued on March 4, was assigned to TDA Research Inc. (Golden, Colo.).

"Gas temperature sensor with thermally luminescent compounds" was invented by John M Alford (Lakewood, Colo.), David P Eisenberg (Denver) and Girish Srinivas (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermally luminescent temperature sensor with a rare earth emitter having a first selective electromagnetic light energy emission band a second selective electromagnetic light energy emission band in which the rare earth emitter converts thermal energy to electromagnetic light energy within the first and second selective energy emission bands. The sensor...