ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,566, issued on July 22, was assigned to Jiangsu University (Jiangsu, China).

"Preparation method of paper-based sensor for detecting ammonia gas, and use of paper-based sensor" was invented by Xiaowei Huang (Jiangsu, China), Zhihua Li (Jiangsu, China), Xiaobo Zou (Jiangsu, China), Wei Sun (Jiangsu, China), Jiyong Shi (Jiangsu, China), Xinai Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Ning Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Di Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Xiaodong Zhai (Jiangsu, China), Xuetao Hu (Jiangsu, China) and Tingting Shen (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure belongs to the technical fields of nanoscience and fluorescence sensing...