US Patent Issued to WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY on Sept. 2 for "Apparatus and method for heat source localization and peak temperature estimation" (Massachusetts, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,178, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY (Springfield, Mass.).

"Apparatus and method for heat source localization and peak temperature estimation" was invented by Jingzhou Zhao (East Longmeadow, Mass.) and Feng Ye (Beavercreek, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat source sensor includes a plurality of first wires extending in a first direction, a plurality of second wires extending in a second direction different from the first direction and crossing the plurality of first wires, and a plurality of nodes. Each node is defined at a crossing of a first wire of the plurality of first wires and a secon...