ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,689, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Resistive thermometer excitation and calibration" was invented by Michael C.W. Coln (Lexington, Mass.), Phillip Michel Nadeau (Cambridge, Mass.) and Qingdong Meng (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuitry and measurement approaches are described herein that can be used to reduce or suppress sensitivity to variation of sensor properties or characteristics over time for a respective monolithically integrated resistive temperature sensor. Such measurement approaches can also help to suppress measurement variations between sensors, such as ...