US Patent Issued to TEMPTIME on June 17 for "Semi-irreversible temperature exposure sensor customizable by thermal printer" (Illinois, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,121, issued on June 17, was assigned to TEMPTIME Corp. (Morris Plains, N.J.).

"Semi-irreversible temperature exposure sensor customizable by thermal printer" was invented by Gene A. Hofer (Lake Zurich, Ill.), Mohannad Abdo (Clifton, N.J.), Marielle K. Smith (Parlin, N.J.) and Arianna E. Harding (Cary, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A customizable temperature exposure indicator and methods for making the same are disclosed. The temperature exposure indicator includes a substrate, a printing region of the substrate forming a heat sensitive media that is configured to darken when it is heated by a thermal printhead, the darkening b...