ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,171, issued on July 28, was assigned to SSAB Enterprises LLC (Mobile, Ala.) and Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. (Ames, Iowa).
"Temperature sensors" was invented by Meng Lu (Ames, Iowa), Jingjing Qian (Ames, Iowa), Sunday O. Abraham (Bettendorf, Iowa), Randy Petty (West Liberty, Iowa) and Matthew J. Werner (Muscatine, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature sensor according to the disclosure herein includes an optical fiber structured to produce a thermal emission representative of a molten steel into which the temperature sensor is inserted; a cladding layer covering at least a portion of the optical fiber; a...