ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,406, issued on June 23, was assigned to Littelfuse Inc. (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Temperature sensing tape having a temperature sensor element with multiple crystallization points" was invented by Sergio Fuentes Godinez (Chicago), Marco Doms (Chicago), Oluwaseun K. Oyewole (Chicago), Aalok Bhatt (Chicago), Francois Perraud (Chicago) and Martin Pineda (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature sensing tape is provided and can include an insulating support structure and at least one temperature sensing element disposed on the insulating support structure wherein the at least one temperature sensing element can be formed from a sing...