ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,018, issued on June 30, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Thermistor integrated with a bias resistor" was invented by Mark Robert Visokay (Dallas, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device including a thermistor and a bias reference resistor in a voltage divider configuration integrated into a single die and a method of fabricating the same. In an example, the electronic device comprises a substrate including an n-well region, a thermistor formed in the n-well region, and a bias resistor connected in series to the thermistor, the bias resistor formed in a region of the substrate isolated from the n-well...