US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASA on Jan. 27 for "Non-contact broad-range temperature measurement system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,359, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASA (Washington).

"Non-contact broad-range temperature measurement system" was invented by Timothy Risch (Palmdale, Calif.) and Christopher Kostyk (Palmdale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature measurement system includes a multimode fiber optic cable having a first end and a second end. A fixture positions the first end in non-contact proximity to a refractory-material object configured to experience temperatures in a temperature range from ambient atmospheric temperature to approximately 3300deg K. The radiant en...