US Patent Issued to University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees on July 8 for "High temperature heat flux sensors" (Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,857, issued on July 8, was assigned to University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees (Kingston, R.I.).

"High temperature heat flux sensors" was invented by Kevin M. Rivera (Providence, R.I.) and Otto J. Gregory (Narragansett, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Temperature sensors particularly suitable for high temperature heat flux measurements across the thickness of a component, for example a turbine blade. The sensors comprise one or more conductive traces that wrap around an edge of the component, thereby connecting one or more hot junctions on the hot side of the component to the cold junction contacts on the colder side of the c...