ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,909, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Sensing system and method" was invented by Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Shiyao Shan (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Tianyi Wang (Clifton Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector system may include a sensing element including a substrate, sensing electrodes supported by the substrate, sensing material over the sensing electrodes, and a multi-energy-delivering element. The multi-energy-delivering element may be coupled to the sensing material and may deliver different types of energy to the gas sensing material. The d...