US 12,222,247 B2
Temperature probe with food-embedded charging contacts
Ronald J. Pulvermacher, Cottage Grove, WI (US)
Assigned to Matrix Product Development, Inc., Madison, WI (US)
Filed by Matrix Product Development, Inc., Madison, WI (US)
Filed on Feb. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/115,546.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/318,034, filed on Mar. 9, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0288264 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. G01K 1/024 (2021.01); G01K 1/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01K 1/00 (2013.01) [H02J 7/0042 (2013.01); G01K 2207/02 (2013.01); G01K 2215/00 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. In a wireless rechargeable temperature probe for food, the probe having an elongate body, a proximal end portion and a distal end portion, the distal end portion having a temperature sensor therein and including a probe tip and a food-embedded portion, the improvement wherein:
the probe tip is electrically-isolated from the food-embedded portion;
the food-embedded portion includes one of the electrical-charging contacts; and
the probe tip includes the other electrical charging contact.