US Patent Issued to ABLIC on May 12 for "Temperature sensor device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,012, issued on May 12, was assigned to ABLIC Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Temperature sensor device" was invented by Tsutomu Tomioka (Nagano, Japan), Tadakatsu Kuroda (Nagano, Japan), Makoto Mitani (Nagano, Japan) and Naohiro Hiraoka (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature sensor device is capable of measuring minute temperature changes while being manufactured at low cost without needing a high performance IC tester. A temperature sensor device includes a temperature sensor circuit 2 and a temperature sensor 1. The temperature sensor 1 includes a PN junction element 15 which is a temperature sensing element, a variable ...