ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,134, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland) and VIRTUAL EM INC. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Non-contact sensing node, systems and methods of remote sensing" was invented by Xinyao Tang (Cleveland Heights, Ohio), Soumyajit Mandal (Gainesville, Fla.) and Tayfun Ozdemir (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example sensing system includes a non-contact sensing electrode configured to sense an electric potential and provide a sensor signal at an output of the sensing electrode based on the sensed electric potential. The output of the sensing electrode is coupled to a first input of an amplif...