ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,086, issued on April 7, was assigned to Mettler-Toledo GmbH (Greifensee, Switzerland).

"Sensor assembly for a differential scanning calorimeter" was invented by Thomas Meyer (Zurich, Switzerland) and Thomas Huetter (Niederrohrdorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing unit for a differential scanning calorimeter includes a superposition of layers of a thermoelectric arrangement, a layer of an electrical heater arrangement and a layer of an absolute temperature measurement arrangement. The thermoelectric arrangements, the electrical heater arrangements and the absolute temperature measurement arrangements are symmetric...