ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,639, issued on April 14, was assigned to MEKTEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Temperature measurement device for attachement to a housing, for example, a battery case" was invented by Katsuhito Shirota (Tokyo), Yuki Komuro (Tokyo) and Tomoki Kanayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a temperature measurement device including: a case; a flexible printed circuit board attached to the case; a pressing plate; and an elastic body, in which: the flexible printed circuit board includes a thermistor element region; the elastic body is interposed between the thermistor element region and the pressing plate; the pressing plate is configure...