ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,398, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Exhaust gas sensor assembly" was invented by Shrevatsan Venkatesan (Canton, Mich.), William Russell Goodwin (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Arron Kowalczyk (Newport, Mich.), Lakshmana Gummadi (Northville, Mich.) and Nicole Pamela Herrera Gutierrez (Mexico City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exhaust gas sensor assembly for a vehicle includes a sampling tube having a proximal end connectable to a housing and a distal end configured to be suspended with a cavity of the housing. The tube defines a hollow center, an inlet, an outlet, and an exhaust gas ...