US Patent Issued to ams-OSRAM Asia Pacific on July 28 for "Temperature sensor" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,462, issued on July 28, was assigned to ams-OSRAM Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Temperature sensor" was invented by Ivan Porin Tolic (Graz, Austria) and Gregor Schatzberger (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature sensor comprises a first oscillator to provide a first oscillation signal having a frequency that increases with increasing temperature and a second oscillator to provide a second oscillation signal having a frequency that decreases with increasing temperature. A time domain sigma-delta modulator is coupled to the first and the second oscillator to receive one of the first oscillation signal and th...