ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,679, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).
"Sensor array for smart frost diagnostics" was invented by Zhiming Gao (Knoxville, Tenn.), Kashif Nawaz (Knoxville, Tenn.), Brian A. Fricke (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Kyle R. Gluesenkamp (Knoxville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods implementing a frost sensor comprising a substrate (S); and sub-sensors disposed on the substrate. The sub-sensors comprising: a resistance-based sub-sensor (RSS) formed of a first trace disposed on S in a winding pattern and configured to measure a temperature; a capacitance-based sub-sensor formed of a second ...