US Patent Issued to DENSO on Nov. 18 for "Gas sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,296, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Gas sensor" was invented by Tatsuya Yoshikawa (Kariya, Japan), Yusuke Todo (Kariya, Japan), Mitsunobu Nakato (Kariya, Japan), Takashi Araki (Kariya, Japan) and Yuji Kawasaki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas sensor includes a sensor element including a solid electrolyte, a gas chamber, a pump electrode, a sensor electrode, and a reference electrode. The pump electrode and sensor electrode are provided in the solid electrolyte in a state in which the pump electrode and the sensor electrode are housed in the gas chamber. The reference electrode is p...