ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,630, issued on July 8, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Rapid temperature change detection using slew rate" was invented by Andrew Nicholas Mason (McKinney, Texas), Shobha Subramanian (Richardson, Texas), Hussain Kutbuddin Attarwala (McKinney, Texas) and Ryan Wade Selby (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes: a temperature sensor including a temperature output, a register including an input and an output, the input coupled to the temperature output, a subtraction circuit including a first subtraction input, a second subtraction input, and a subtraction output, the first subtraction...