US Patent Issued to GUVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, THEISS RESEARCH on June 24 for "Thin film magnetic field vector sensor" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,331, issued on June 24, was assigned to GUVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Md.) and THEISS RESEARCH (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Thin film magnetic field vector sensor" was invented by Emily Geraldine Bittle (Bethesda, Md.), David James Gundlach (Montgomery Village, 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 at least ...