US Patent Issued to BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY on Jan. 13 for "Hybrid vacuum electronics communication and sensor system" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,919, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY (Boise, Idaho).

"Hybrid vacuum electronics communication and sensor system" was invented by Jim Browning (Boise, Idaho), Ranajoy Bhattacharya (Boise, Idaho) and Robert Hay (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a substrate and an oscillation circuit integrated with the substrate. The oscillation circuit may include a field-emission-based vacuum transistor. The oscillation circuit may also include a capacitive transducer. An oscillation frequency of the oscillation circuit may be indicative of a magnitude of a temperature, a pressure, or a vibrat...