ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,779, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Self-monitoring sensor" was invented by Thomas Bierweiler (Stutensee, Germany), Tim Scherer (Karlsruhe, Germany), Stefan Von Dosky (Karlsruhe, Germany), Wolfgang Ens (Linkenheim, Germany) and Markus Hilsendegen (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit, an operating method and a self-monitoring sensor which is fastenable to a measurement object includes a holder projecting radially from the measurement object, wherein at least one sensor element is held in the holder and the sensor element is fixed by a compressive force exerted by an elastic elemen...