ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,424, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Virtual temperature sensor" was invented by Jared Starman (Mountain View, Calif.), Mike Mehlman (Mountain View, Calif.), TeYuan Wang (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Paul B. Crosbie (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes receiving electrical power via a physical connector of a mobile computing device; determining, by a controller of the mobile computing device, a value of a temperature of a virtual temperature sensor, the value representing a difference between a temperature measured by a first temperature sensor of a plurality of temp...