ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,803, issued on March 24, was assigned to Battelle Energy Alliance LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho).

"Methods of measuring thermal properties, and related apparatuses" was invented by Cody A. Dennett (Arlington, Mass.), Robert S. Schley (Rigby, Idaho), Yuzhou Wang (Idaho Falls, Idaho), David H. Hurley (Idaho Falls, Idaho), Geoffrey L. Beausoleil (Idaho Falls, Idaho), Daniel J. Murray (Idaho Falls, Idaho) and Michael J. Moorehead (Rigby, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein relate to measuring thermal properties. At least one embodiment includes a method including heating a location of an object with an excitation...