US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 13 for "2D nanoparticle detection and motion sensing" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,628, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"2D nanoparticle detection and motion sensing" was invented by Frank Robert Libsch (White Plains, N.Y.) and Venkat K. Balagurusamy (Airmont, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for detecting the presence and/or monitoring a movement of an analyte contained in a medium. More specifically, a microcapacitive sensing system is provided that includes a planar micro-capacitive sensor array for detecting the presence of an analyte in a sample media. The sensor structure for sensing recognizing or tracking material movement inclu...