ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,800, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Digital temperature sensor and method of measuring temperature" was invented by Hanseul Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seongjin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital temperature sensor includes a current generation circuit, an oscillation circuit, a conversion circuit and a calculation circuit. The current generation circuit generates a proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) current and a complementary to absolute temperature (CTAT) current. The oscillation circuit generates a first clock signal having ...