US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Gas sensor with a sensor element and a flame arrester and use of the same for the detection of gases" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,314, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Gas sensor with a sensor element and a flame arrester and use of the same for the detection of gases" was invented by Rainer Markus Schaller (Saal a.d. Donau, Germany), Matthias Eberl (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Christoph Steiner (St. Margarethen, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas sensor comprises a sensor element for the detection of a gas, an encapsulation, which surrounds the sensor element and has an opening for a gas to be detected to pass through to the sensor element, and a flame arrester, which is arranged in the opening of the e...