ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,740, issued on March 3, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus for temperature detection and wearable device" was invented by Xueming Cao (Shanghai), Tao Kong (Shanghai), Wei Gu (Shanghai) and Weizhong Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for temperature detection. The method comprises obtaining a sensed temperature from a sensor, the sensor being in a mounted mode where the sensor is thermally radiated by a variable heat source and a fixed heat source; determining a temperature change rate of the sensor and at least one aff...