US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 25 for "Electrochemical exhaust gas sensor with photolysis" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,357, issued on March 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electrochemical exhaust gas sensor with photolysis" was invented by David Bilby (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Reinoud Felix Wolffenbuttel (Leidschendam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automotive exhaust gas sensor includes a gas chamber, an ultraviolet light source configured to emit ultraviolet light into the gas chamber and to photolyze an exhaust gas sample in the gas chamber, and an electrochemical detector disposed in the gas chamber and configured to detect a specified chemical in the photolyzed exhaust gas sample."

The patent wa...