US Patent Issued to Varian Medical Systems on March 31 for "System and method to measure temperature and generate heat using a resistive material" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,258, issued on March 31, was assigned to Varian Medical Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"System and method to measure temperature and generate heat using a resistive material" was invented by Kenneth Wayne Zapalac (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating system includes a power supply that applies a first voltage to a sense resistor in series with a resistive heating material during a first time period; and a controller that determines a temperature of the resistive heating material based on a current through the sense resistor and a second voltage across the resistive heating material during the first time peri...