US Patent Issued to Apple on May 12 for "Dual heat path temperature sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,017, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Dual heat path temperature sensor" was invented by Wanfeng Huang (Fremont, Calif.), Hongling Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Ali M. Amin (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and James C. Clements (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature sensing system includes absolute temperature sensor(s) and/or thermopiles that form concentric geometries and are uniform in height. In some examples, the temperature sensing system can determine internal body temperature and/or ambient temperature based at least on a thermal gradient associated with the inner thermopile, a thermal g...