ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,007, issued on May 12, was assigned to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Optomechanically calibrated photonic thermometer and calibrating a photonic thermometer" was invented by Daniel Schaeder Barker (Olney, Md.), Nikolai Nikolaevich Klimov (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Thomas Patrick Purdy (Gaithersburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermometer system includes a photonic thermometer; and an optomechanical thermometer configured to calibrate the photonic thermometer, thereby making the thermometer system an optomechanically calibrated photonic thermometer."...