ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,974, issued on July 14, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Computer implemented method for providing temperature data, a computer product element and a system" was invented by Joerg Gebhardt (Mainz, Germany), Guruprasad Sosale (Munich), Subhashish Dasgupta (Bangalore, India), Patric Ackermann (Fischbachtal, Germany), Wilhelm Daake (Petershagen, Germany) and Karsten Schroeder (Petershagen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer implemented method for determining boundary thermal resistance data (Rbl) of a boundary layer (15), comprising the following steps: obtaining first temperature data (T1) from a first...