US Patent Issued to Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce on June 24 for "Thin film magnetic field magnitude sensor" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,330, issued on June 24, was assigned to Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Thin film magnetic field magnitude sensor" was invented by David James Gundlach (Montgomery Village, Md.), Emily Geraldine Bittle (Bethesda, Md.) and Sebastian Engmann (Gaithersburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel magnetic field sensor (MFS) may be created with an organic light emitting diode (OLED) made from an organic semiconductor material and an organic photodetector (OPD) built directly on top (or below) of the OLED, wherein one layer is made from a magnetically isotropi...