Patent ID: 8311763

Claim:
A method of compensating a temperature measurement of a thermal device in a user environment as a function of a thermal transfer of the thermal device in a temperature measurement system, the method comprising: inputting thermal transfer parameters associated with heat transfer characteristics of the thermal device; obtaining a single temperature measurement of a target thermal source to be measured based on an output of the thermal device that is exposed to the target thermal source during the temperature measurement; storing the input thermal transfer parameters in a thermal transfer indicia, wherein the thermal transfer indicia is associated with an indicia storage system communicatively linked to the thermal device; retrieving the thermal transfer indicia from the indicia storage system; and using the thermal transfer indicia to compensate for measurement errors in the single temperature measurement of the target thermal source to be measured as a function of the thermal transfer function between the thermal device and the user environment based on one of a plurality of predetermined specific thermal environments and one of a plurality of predetermined specific thermal errors associated with the thermal device, wherein the plurality of predetermined specific thermal errors are predetermined sensor specific information and are independent of application conditions.